ICEYE

Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Portugal

ICEYE
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17 days ago
Lisbon, PortugalMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Deploy ICEYE’s intelligence platform into secure, on-premise, air-gapped, and classified customer environments.
  • Build and maintain Docker-based applications and manage deployments in customer Kubernetes clusters.
  • Develop APIs and data pipelines integrating ICEYE systems with C4ISR infrastructure and intelligence tools.
  • Build RAG systems, AI agents, prompt-engineered workflows, conversational interfaces, and MCP integrations.
  • Create data-fusion pipelines combining SAR imagery with AIS, RF signals, optical imagery, SIGINT, and other intelligence sources.
  • Develop lightweight tools, dashboards, alerting systems, and automated workflows for customer operations.
  • Work directly with intelligence analysts, data scientists, and military operators to understand mission needs.
  • Rapidly prototype solutions, conduct customer training, and translate feedback into technical requirements.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of hands-on software engineering experience building and deploying production systems.
  • Strong Python programming skills plus experience with Go, TypeScript, or Rust.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and RAG systems.
  • Working knowledge of LangChain, LangGraph, pydantic-ai, agent frameworks, and vector databases.
  • Experience with Docker, secure or isolated deployments, APIs, data pipelines, Linux, and basic Kubernetes operations.
  • Strong communication and customer-engagement skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders.
  • Strong spoken and written English; native-level fluency in the country of deployment.
  • Willingness to travel 40–60% to customer sites within the region.
  • Must be based in-country and eligible and able to attain relevant national and NATO security clearances.
  • Preferred qualifications include defense, intelligence, government, geospatial, satellite imagery, remote sensing, MCP, multi-agent, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, offline CI/CD, GIS, data-fusion, solution engineering, technical consulting, or customer-success experience.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work in Lisbon, Portugal, with approximately 50% of time on-site at customer locations.
  • Continuous professional development and training opportunities.
  • Benefits supporting health and wellbeing, with offerings varying by location and confirmed during the hiring process.
  • Travel to customer sites within the region is expected at 40–60%.

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About ICEYE

1,001-5,000 employees

ICEYE builds and operates a commercial synthetic-aperture-radar (SAR) satellite constellation that provides high-revisit imagery and change-detection services for government and enterprise users. It sells tasking, data and analytics subscriptions, disaster-response solutions for insurers, and turnkey sovereign constellations that national customers can own and operate. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Espoo, Finland, ICEYE’s systems support defense and intelligence, environmental monitoring, and emergency management worldwide.

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