AI Consultant for SDLC Lisboa

Overview

At Critical Software we truly believe that our people is what makes us what we are. At the heart of everything we do are our diverse and talented individuals, pushing the boundaries of what´s possible.

Working at Critical is more than just a career choice, it is more than a business: we're a community with a strong sense of purpose, values, and togetherness. Our engineering excellence ensures that we are a trusted partner to some of the world's leading companies in markets such as Aerospace, Railway, Medical Systems, Energy, Finance, and many more.

We are always on the lookout for bright and ambitious individuals to join us.

Role

We’re looking for an AI Consultant for SDLC to lead the adoption and strategic use of AI across our software development lifecycle. If you thrive at the intersection of software engineering and emerging AI tools, and you’re ready to lead by example, this role is for you. Note: This is an adoption role focused on engineer’s tooling and workflow improvement, not a
- building or data science role.

Could you be the AI Consultant for SDLC that we've been looking for?

What you’ll do

As part of the Internal AI Ops team, your mission combines two dimensions:

• 1. Evangelize the smart use of AI within engineering teams
  • Inspire and guide engineering teams to embed AI into daily workflows and decision making
  • Lead
    - on sessions, demos and peer labs
  • Cultivate technical confidence and responsible usage of AI tools
  • Identify meaningful use cases and lead them from concept to deployment
• 2. Be our
  - house expert in AI tools for the SDLC
  • Evaluate, master and deploy tools like Git
    Hub Copilot, Cursor, Pooside, Windsurf
  • Design prompt libraries,
    - case templates and integration flows
  • Connect tools across the engineering ecosystem, from development environments to issue trackers and CI/CD pipelines
  • Monitor tool performance and lead iterative improvements based on impact

What you bring

• Experience driving changes in engineering environments using
  - management practices (e. g. ADKAR) to influence adoption and overcome resistance
• Confidence to lead conversations with developers, product owners, and engineering managers
• Solid background in
  - engineering workflows (you understand how code is built, reviewed, tested and shipped;
  - on when helpful)
• Curiosity and
  - on skills with AI developer tooling and automation
• A
  - thinking mindset and the ability to translate developer pain points into smart, scalable AI-enabled solutions
• Bonus if you have experience in Dev
  Ex, automation, building internal dev tools, and using platforms like VSCode, Jira, or Azure Dev
  Ops

What’s in it for you

• Influence how AI is used at scale by hundreds of engineers
• Shape how
  - facing AI tools are used across the SDLC
• Shape engineering guardrails, policy and
  - ready practices for AI-assisted development
• Join a culture of engineering excellence and innovation
• Collaborate with other AI experts and business stakeholders across the company
• Access the latest tooling, share best practices, and make your mark

Ready to lead from the inside? In your cover letter, tell us how you’ve introduced AI-assisted development into real SDLC workflows. We’d love to know how you made adoption stick, overcame resistance, or scaled success across teams. Built prompt libraries, integrated Copilot into repos/CI, or improved review/test cycles with AI? We want to hear it. Let’s redefine together how software gets built.

Critical Software is proud to be a Benefit Corporation. A Benefit Corporation differs from a standard corporation (C-Corporation): It is a
- profit business entity, legally defined in the US and other jurisdictions, whose legally defined goals include the positive impact on society, workers, the community and the environment, in addition to profit.

We are an equal opportunity workplace and committed to allow candidates with disabilities or neurodevelopmental conditions to prove their competencies to their full potential. We are willing to move the barriers that may prevent you from demonstrating that you are the right candidate for this role, so please let us know if you need some adjustment in your recruitment process.

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