AI Engineer

Location: Hybrid role based in Portugal, with monthly travel to Lisbon or Madrid offices when needed.

Salary: €42,000–€58,000 gross per year.

Company

hirify.global is an international data analytics and artificial intelligence consultancy with 2,800 consultants and experts across 28 countries, helping organisations operationalise AI and build intelligent enterprise systems.

What you will do

• Design and build production AI capabilities, including RAG systems, intelligent assistants, and agent-enabled workflows.
• Engineer agent instructions, context, tools, routing, memory, recovery, stopping conditions, and human checkpoints.
• Integrate and configure commercial or open-source models through APIs and supported platforms, balancing capability, quality, latency, cost, and operational requirements.
• Design evaluations, quality gates, automated and regression tests, and measurable task-success and groundedness criteria.
• Deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and continuously improve AI capabilities in production.
• Integrate AI with client systems and enable client teams to operate and extend agents after go-live.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong hands-on experience building production GenAI or LLM-based systems beyond notebooks or demonstrations.
• Experience deploying and operating AI capabilities in production, including monitoring, reliability, latency, cost, and continuous improvement.
• Strong Python and software-engineering fundamentals, including APIs, testing, version control, code review, and maintainable production code.
• Practical experience with RAG and retrieval-based systems, including context preparation, retrieval quality, grounding, and data dependencies.
• Hands-on experience engineering AI agents or multi-step AI workflows, including tool use, context management, routing, state, failure handling, and human control.
• Experience evaluating LLM or agent systems with measurable criteria and representative test cases.
• Experience integrating model providers and AI with enterprise applications, APIs, data sources, and workflow systems such as CRM, ERP, MCP, and webhooks.
• Working knowledge of solution-level guardrails, validation, human oversight, responsible AI engineering, cloud or AI ecosystems, containerisation, CI/CD, observability, and LLMOps.
• Professional fluency in Portuguese, Spanish, and English, written and spoken.

Nice to have

• Deeper agentic AI experience, including multi-agent orchestration, planning and execution loops, complex state management, recovery strategies, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
• Experience with multimodal systems, fine-tuning, open-source model deployment, specialised inference, classical machine learning, or deep learning.
• Experience with low-code agent platforms such as n8n, Make, or Dust.
• Experience in regulated or security-sensitive environments.
• Consulting or client-facing experience and exposure to international or multicultural projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employee contract in a collaborative, international, and human-centred environment.
• Hybrid work with monthly travel to Lisbon or Madrid.
• €10.20 daily meal allowance and flexible benefits plan.
• Private medical insurance and 22 days of annual leave, increasing to 25 days over time.
• Continuous learning through the hirify.global Learning Experience.
• AI tools are strictly prohibited during interviews; use may result in immediate disqualification.

Hiring process

• Recruitment stages are conducted and evaluated by human recruiters and interviewers.
• Candidate use of AI assistance during the interview process is prohibited.