Senior Generative AI & Agentic Systems Engineer

Location: Lisbon, Portugal; hybrid with up to 2 remote days per week

Salary: €4,410–€5,250 monthly B2B, or €2,300–€2,650 net monthly under a permanent contract.

Company

hirify.global delivers technology services for a major European financial group focused on secure and innovative financial solutions.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and deploy Generative AI and agentic solutions for complex financial-services challenges.
• Build and scale autonomous and multi-agent architectures using suitable frameworks or native AI SDKs.
• Implement RAG, vector databases, APIs, data pipelines, and agentic workflows.
• Design agent harness components for memory, state management, context storage, file systems, and communication protocols.
• Lead testing, validation, documentation, and knowledge sharing for reliable and reproducible AI systems.
• Collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, product managers, business stakeholders, and senior executives while supporting privacy, security, compliance, and ethical AI practices.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in machine learning, AI development, and software engineering.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Advanced Python skills and strong software development experience.
• Proven experience developing and deploying agentic solutions and designing AI system architectures.
• Practical knowledge of LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or native SDKs such as the Claude Agent SDK, Google GenAI SDK, or Google ADK.
• Strong understanding of agent harness components, including memory management, state handling, context storage, MCP servers, and A2A or ACP communication protocols.
• Experience with open-source and commercial LLMs, RAG techniques, and vector databases.
• Familiarity with GCP, AWS, or Azure for AI/ML deployments, plus strong analytical, communication, and teamwork skills.
• Fluent English at C1 level or higher is mandatory. Willingness to learn French is expected.
• Only candidates with an existing legal right to work in Europe will be considered.

Nice to have

• Expertise in Generative AI model training, fine-tuning, and deployment.
• Experience with traditional AI/ML methods such as decision trees, SVMs, clustering, or neural networks.
• Knowledge of MLOps, ethical AI, model interpretability, or scalable cloud-native architectures.
• Fluency in French.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model based in Lisbon, with up to 2 remote days per week.
• Choice of B2B engagement or permanent contract, with separate monthly compensation arrangements.
• Work on responsible AI initiatives aligned with business goals, compliance requirements, and measurable ROI.

Hiring process

• Submit a CV, preferably in English.
• Include a statement confirming consent to the processing and storage of personal data.