Staff AI Engineer: Lead Production AI & Platform

AItoolnavio; Portugal; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Architectural influence in major AI決定

Access to proprietary dataset from 1,2

High-autonomy Staff-level role

Job summary

AItoolnavio is seeking a Staff AI Engineer based in Portugal to shape and deploy high-impact AI initiatives. You will lead cross-functional teams, define architectural standards, and deliver production-ready AI solutions that improve customer experiences.

You will establish scalable AI quality frameworks, manage agent design and tool integrations, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Product, Design, QA, and Ops to translate business needs into technical solutions.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading complex, hands-on AI initiatives as Staff level or equivalent.
• Experience designing and deploying production-grade AI agents and generative features.
• Ability to influence architecture, standards, and cross-team initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development and delivery of major AI initiatives, including AI-powered assistants and generative features.
• Contribute to production AI systems, improving architecture and workflows.
• Improve AI quality, reliability, and performance with measurable enhancements.
• Own major AI projects from planning to deployment and optimization.
• Influence architectural decisions across teams for AI platform infrastructure.
• Establish scalable AI quality frameworks with automated evaluations and monitoring.
• Design reliable AI agents and tool integrations balancing deterministic logic and LLMs.
• Drive engineering excellence through processes, reviews, and documentation.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and Operations to translate business needs into solutions.
• Mentor and promote best practices in engineering and AI development.

Skills

Technical leadership

LLM applications

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

Redis

REST/GraphQL APIs

AI evaluation frameworks

Tools

Python tooling

Django framework

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

AItoolnavio is seeking a Staff AI Engineer based in Portugal to shape and deploy high-impact AI initiatives. You will lead cross-functional teams, define architectural standards, and deliver production-ready AI solutions that improve customer experiences.

You will establish scalable AI quality frameworks, manage agent design and tool integrations, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Product, Design, QA, and Ops to translate business needs into technical solutions.