AI Engineer

Overview

AI Engineer – Festanstellung, Vollzeit

Standort: Leiria, Lisbon, Viseu

About Us

At xgeeks, we are on a mission to accelerate success with AI and Cloud-Native development. We design and implement AI and Cloud-Native solutions for
- ups,
- ups, and large European clients, with an international, multidisciplinary team from our offices in Leiria, Lisbon and Viseu.

As part of the synvert Group, you’ll join a global network of technology experts and access resources of a larger international tech powerhouse. We’re expanding our impact and delivering stronger solutions for our clients.

Tech Stack

We value engineers who can quickly pick up technologies and choose the right tool for the job. Details about our stack are provided upon request.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, design, and delivery of AI-driven solutions, spanning LLMs, ML models, and intelligent workflows.
• Architect and implement scalable AI systems that integrate with
  - grade infrastructures and engineering practices.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and leadership to identify opportunities where AI adds value and turn them into real solutions.
• Develop and maintain internal tooling, frameworks, and guidelines to enable other teams to work effectively with AI/ML technologies.
• Guide the adoption of Gen
  AI capabilities, including prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and
  - based architectures, with a focus on
  - term maintainability.
• Ensure systems are observable, testable, performant and aligned with data privacy, security and compliance needs.
• Stay informed on the evolving AI/ML ecosystem (Gen
  AI, MLOps, vector search, model serving) and evaluate new tools for enterprise readiness.
• Promote a culture of learning, experimentation, and thoughtful adoption of AI technologies across teams.

Key Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in software or ML engineering, with strong backend architecture and distributed systems background.
• Proven track record delivering AI-powered systems in production, preferably in enterprise environments.
• Proficient in Python (or Node. js), with experience building robust, maintainable, and scalable services.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, embeddings, prompt engineering, RAG patterns, and Gen
  AI tooling (e. g. , Lang
  Chain, Transformers, Hugging Face, Open
  AI APIs).
• Experience with
  - tenant systems, observability, performance, cost tracking, and governance.
• Familiarity with modern infrastructure tooling: containerisation (Docker), orchestration (Airflow, Temporal), cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience driving
  - functional initiatives and mentoring technical teams on AI capabilities.
• Fluent in English and able to collaborate across disciplines.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with model serving and inference frameworks (e. g. , v
  LLM, Tensor
  RT-LLM, Lite
  LLM).
• Familiarity with vector databases (Qdrant, Weaviate, Pinecone) and semantic search design.
• Exposure to MLOps or AIOps practices, including monitoring, retraining, and lifecycle management.
• Background in data science or ML beyond Gen
  AI use cases (e. g. ,
  - series, anomaly detection, recommendation systems).
• Contributions to
  - source tools or internal enablement platforms.

Perks

Join a global team of over 500 experts from Germany to the UK, Croatia, and the UAE as part of the synvert Group. At xgeeks you’ll work on
- edge
- native and AI solutions with synvert’s industry knowledge and technical expertise. We are looking for Software Engineers to join our growing teams in Portugal.

Join us at the forefront of delivering excellence in Dev
Ops, Data, AI and Digital Products. We welcome applications even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements.

Application Process

See you on the other side!