Staff AI Engineer, Payments Intelligence — Remote & Equity

Yuno; Coimbra; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work from anywhere

Home office bonus

Stock options

Health plan

Work equipment

Flexible days off

Growth courses

Job summary

Yuno is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead Payments Intelligence, architecting AI agents and intelligent systems at scale. You will drive multi-language conversations, tool use, orchestration, and retrieval-augmented generation while ensuring safety and compliance in a production, international environment.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with Product and Data Science, and shape the technical direction for agentic AI across the platform.

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering experience with production AI-agent systems.
• Deep expertise in agentic systems: multi-step agents, tool use, orchestration, memory and RAG.
• Strong LLM application skills: prompts, evaluation, guardrails for safe outputs.
• Proficient Python and backend engineering (Go/Kotlin) to productionize systems.
• Experience with model serving and cloud infrastructure for AI workloads.
• Proven technical leadership and mentoring across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture of AI agents (AIDA, NOVA) and intelligence systems.
• Design production LLM and agentic pipelines with low latency at scale.
• Build multilingual, cross-channel conversational experiences for customers.
• Define safety, guardrails and observability for compliant AI systems.
• Architect client-intelligence systems turning payment data into merchant insights.
• Lead AI Ops automation to streamline internal operations and support.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Python AI/ML

Go & Kotlin

LLM APIs & agent frameworks

AI evaluation & observability

English proficiency

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Datadog/OpenTelemetry

Job description

Yuno is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead Payments Intelligence, architecting AI agents and intelligent systems at scale. You will drive multi-language conversations, tool use, orchestration, and retrieval-augmented generation while ensuring safety and compliance in a production, international environment.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with Product and Data Science, and shape the technical direction for agentic AI across the platform.