Senior AI Engineer: NLP, LLMs & Production Systems

KI performance GmbH; Lisboa; Vor Ort; EUR 100.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

KI Performance GmbH is seeking a Senior AI Engineer (Forward Deployed) to lead hands-on AI solution delivery in customer environments. You will apply NLP, LLMs, and speech models with strong software engineering to build scalable, production-ready systems on Azure.

You will own the end-to-end implementation, collaborate with customers and internal teams, and ensure reliability, observability, and cost awareness.

Qualifikationen

• Very senior, hands-on engineer with strong experience in applied AI and software engineering.
• Strong AI-first mindset, with sound judgment on when AI - and especially LLMs - should or should not be used.
• Strong ownership mentality and delivery focus.
• Solid engineering practices with Git and CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub, or GitLab).
• Production mindset: reliability, observability, security, and cost control.
• For candidate based in Germany - business-level German and English. For Candidate based in Portugal - Business-level English

Aufgaben

• Analyze and structure business processes, decision logic, and data relationships.
• Challenge assumptions and refine requirements together with customers and stakeholders.
• Translate complex domain needs into clear, implementable technical solutions.
• Design and implement AI systems with a strong focus on NLP, LLMs, and speech models.
• Build agentic workflows, orchestration layers, tool integrations, and decision logic.
• Develop end-to-end solution flows that combine AI capabilities with backend and platform components.
• Apply structured LLM patterns such as tool calling, schema-validated outputs, retries, fallbacks, and guardrails.
• Integrate AI services into enterprise environments and production systems.
• Actively implement core application and integration logic - this is not a design-only role.
• Build maintainable, testable, and production-ready software in Python.
• Use modern engineering practices to ensure reliability, observability, security, and cost awareness.
• Improve development speed and quality through automation, testing, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
• Work directly with customers in workshops, implementation sessions, and delivery phases.
• Drive technical solutioning together with Engineering Managers, Cloud AI Architects, and QA.
• Contribute to architecture decisions while maintaining a strong execution mindset.
• Take ownership of successful deployment and integration in real-world environments.

Kenntnisse

Hands-on engineer

Applied AI

Software engineering

Ownership mindset

Git & CI/CD

Tools

FastAPI

Pydantic

Databricks

Jobbeschreibung

KI Performance GmbH is seeking a Senior AI Engineer (Forward Deployed) to lead hands-on AI solution delivery in customer environments. You will apply NLP, LLMs, and speech models with strong software engineering to build scalable, production-ready systems on Azure.

You will own the end-to-end implementation, collaborate with customers and internal teams, and ensure reliability, observability, and cost awareness.