Senior AI Engineer (Agentic AI/MCP/AWS) - Portugal Full Remote

HumanIT Digital Consulting; Porto; Remote; EUR 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

15th month salary

Birthday off

Mobility program for digital nomads

Real work-life balance

Job summary

HumanIT Digital Consulting in Portugal seeks a Senior AI Engineer focused on applied data to design and deliver enterprise AI solutions. The role is fully remote from anywhere in Portugal, with optional access to company hubs and occasional travel up to 15%.

You will work on enterprise agentic architectures, secure integrations, governance, evaluation, and delivery pipelines to set the standard for production AI in enterprise stacks.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of senior-level experience in AI/engineering
• Hands-on GenAI engineering: end-to-end agentic systems, MCP, function calls, evaluation
• Strong SQL and data modelling to enable enterprise data access for AI agents
• Deep knowledge of cloud architectures and distributed systems
• Enterprise security: RBAC, identity propagation, policy enforcement
• Production-grade Python with testing, CI/CD, REST and Docker
• Professional English required; based in Portugal

Skills

GenAI engineering

Agent orchestration

SQL modeling

Cloud architectures

Security governance

Python development

CI/CD

REST APIs

Docker experience

English fluency

Job description

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Join a well-established international software engineering company that builds high-performance products used by millions of people worldwide. The company runs on self-organisation, trust and ownership, with no politics. Teams own their work end to end, and your voice matters as much as your code. This is an internal role on the company’s own team, not a client allocation. As a Senior AI Engineer focused on applied data, you will make AI accelerators produce output that is correct, secure and adopted on real enterprise stacks.

The role is fully remote from anywhere in Portugal, with optional access to the company’s hubs. Occasional national or international travel may apply, estimated at 0–15%.

PROJECT & CONTEXT

You will design and deliver complex enterprise agentic AI solutions and set the standard for what “good” looks like in production:

• Enterprise Agentic Architecture: design and deploy complex agentic AI systems and orchestrate agents.
• Secure Integration & MCP: implement and integrate Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that connect foundation models securely to enterprise data and internal tools.
• Security & Governance: apply fine-grained RBAC, identity propagation and deterministic policy enforcement across systems, so tools execute securely.
• Evaluation & Verification: encode correctness rules and safety guardrails so that generated output and agent actions can be trusted.
• Path to Delivery: deliver reviewable diffs, IaC and CI/CD for AI systems, and drive adoption across delivery teams.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR (Required)

• 7+ years of relevant experience at senior level
• Deep GenAI engineering: hands-on experience building agentic systems end to end, including agent orchestration frameworks, Model Context Protocol (MCP), complex function calling, structured outputs and evaluation systems
• Strong SQL and data modelling skills, so that AI agents work with enterprise data stores efficiently and accurately
• Real depth in cloud architectures
• Enterprise security fluency: identity propagation, fine-grained RBAC, IAM and deterministic policy enforcement in distributed and agentic systems
• Strong production software engineering in Python, testing, CI/CD, REST and Docker
• Languages: professional fluency in English (mandatory)
• Based in Portugal

Compensation: €2,200 – €3,100/month net, depending on experience and seniority level.

Why HumanIT people stay (4.4 Glassdoor, 89% recommend)

• 15th month salary
• Health insurance covering your family
• Birthday off
• Mobility program for digital nomads
• Real work-life balance

Full benefits: https://www.humanit.pt/careers/#perks

What it’s really like: https://www.humanit.pt/careers/#work-at