Senior Applied AI Engineer
Renesas Electronics2 days ago
Lisbon, PortugalSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop agentic flows using off-the-shelf LLMs, tool-calling, planning, skills, sub-agents, MCP servers, and CLIs for hardware design and requirements-management use cases.
- Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, and designers to ship AI-driven product features and improvements.
- Build evaluation pipelines, define metrics, gather data, extend test suites, and run benchmarks for AI systems.
- Benchmark models, prompts, and approaches for speed, cost, and accuracy, applying techniques such as meta prompting, fine-tuning, RAG, caching, prompt compression, and distillation.
- Participate in the full AI product lifecycle from experimentation through deployment and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Profound knowledge of LLM engineering and production development and evaluation of LLM-based features.
- Advanced Python development skills.
- Production experience with agentic loops, tool-calling, agent orchestration, MCP servers, evaluation and benchmarking pipelines, and cost and latency optimization.
- Ability to plan experiments and execute tasks autonomously with attention to detail.
- Experience working in multidisciplinary teams to ship features to customers and curiosity about user journeys and real-world use cases.
- Preferred experience with synthetic test-data creation, distillation, agent-orchestration debugging, and model fine-tuning.
- Preferred experience with hardware engineering software, end-to-end harnesses for agentic loops, high-concurrency asynchronous services, and stateful agentic frameworks such as LangGraph.
Benefits
- Private health insurance through Allianz, fully covered by Altium, with optional family coverage.
- Maximum tax-exempt daily meal allowance through a prepaid meal card.
- Eligible employees may apply to work outside their country of employment for up to 30 business days in a rolling 12-month period.
- Professional development grant and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning and the company talent portal.
- Mental health benefit with one-to-one psychologist sessions and digital tools.
- 22 vacation days per calendar year for full-time employees and shortened schedules on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.
- Ergonomic workplaces, fresh fruit, snacks, free coffee and drinks, and a rooftop terrace.
- Regular permanent employment; the role requires location in Lisbon, Portugal, eligibility to work in Portugal, and does not offer remote work.
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About Renesas Electronics
Renesas Electronics designs and sells microcontrollers, analog and power ICs, and connectivity solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT manufacturers. Its portfolio spans embedded processing, power management and ADAS-ready components, sold directly and through channels to OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers, with software and development tools to integrate them. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Tokyo, it is a public company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and has expanded through acquisitions including Intersil and Dialog Semiconductor.