Senior AI Platform Engineer — Scale AI Agents & DevOps

powertalent; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Powertalent is seeking a Senior AI Platform Engineer to build and scale AI-driven engineering solutions across the SDLC. This role blends AI Engineering, Platform Engineering and DevOps, requiring a highly autonomous engineer with ownership and proven production experience with AI agents.

You will design and implement AI agent workflows, develop agents with orchestration and MCP, and build robust CI/CD pipelines while integrating with Jira and source control. Hybrid work in Portugal is offered.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with senior/lead responsibilities.
• Proven production deployment of AI agents, including orchestration and evaluation frameworks.
• Strong Platform Engineering, DevOps and CI/CD background.
• Proficiency in Python and TypeScript.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP or equivalent) and IaC (Terraform or similar).
• Experience with internal developer platforms, CLIs, or workflow engines.
• Hands-on agentic coding tools and solid SDLC understanding.
• Fluent English (C1) and ability to work in Portugal.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI agent workflows across the SDLC.
• Develop AI agents using orchestration, tool integration, MCP and context engineering.
• Implement evaluation frameworks, guardrails and quality controls.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation and developer tooling.
• Integrate AI-powered workflows with Jira and source control platforms.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

DevOps practice

Independent work

English proficiency

Tools

Terraform

GCP

Jira

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Powertalent is seeking a Senior AI Platform Engineer to build and scale AI-driven engineering solutions across the SDLC. This role blends AI Engineering, Platform Engineering and DevOps, requiring a highly autonomous engineer with ownership and proven production experience with AI agents.

You will design and implement AI agent workflows, develop agents with orchestration and MCP, and build robust CI/CD pipelines while integrating with Jira and source control. Hybrid work in Portugal is offered.