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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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16 days ago
Porto, PortugalSenior

Responsibilities

  • Stabilize, mature, and evolve the AI platform supporting production LLM, RAG, and agent-based solutions.
  • Implement guardrails, access controls, authentication, rate limiting, quotas, token management, cost monitoring, and policy enforcement.
  • Support shared AI platform services such as LLM gateways, model routing, vector search, and orchestration.
  • Improve deployment automation, observability, versioning, rollback, CI/CD, and production-readiness practices for AI workloads.
  • Work with DevOps and platform engineering teams to deploy and operate AI services across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
  • Design, build, and maintain Generative AI solutions, including RAG pipelines, agent workflows, backend APIs, and reusable services.
  • Diagnose production issues and contribute to technical standards for secure, reliable, and maintainable AI systems.
  • Influence technical decisions and support the development of other engineers.

Requirements

  • Strong experience in AI engineering, backend engineering, platform engineering, or ML platform roles.
  • Strong Python skills and experience building production-grade APIs, backend services, and integrations.
  • Hands-on experience developing or operating production Generative AI solutions using cloud-hosted or open-source language models.
  • Experience with LLM, RAG, or agent-based systems and their production challenges.
  • Experience implementing authentication, rate limiting, quotas, token management, cost monitoring, or policy enforcement controls.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, Kubernetes, and production observability.
  • Experience with CI/CD, deployment automation, and reliable software release practices.
  • Knowledge of relational databases and experience with vector search or vector databases.
  • Strong written and spoken English.
  • Preferred experience with LangChain, LangGraph, pgvector, FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, Databricks, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI, AWS Bedrock, or Google Vertex AI.
  • Preferred experience with LLM gateways, model routing, fallback strategies, multi-provider architectures, AI evaluation, prompt-injection testing, responsible AI, security governance, or FinOps controls.
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, ownership, quality, security, and reliability skills, with the ability to work across technical and non-technical teams.

Benefits

  • Permanent contract.
  • Competitive compensation package based on experience, including private health insurance.
  • 22 days of annual leave plus 3 additional company days.
  • Flexible working hours and a hybrid work model in Porto.
  • Continuous technical and behavioral learning opportunities.
  • Modern office in central Porto with free parking.
  • Access to ISS Tech Communities.
  • Free company gym access, snacks, and drinks at the office.
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