ICEYE

Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Portugal

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2 months 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 interfaces, conversational AI tools, and MCP integrations.
  • Create data-fusion pipelines and automated workflows combining SAR imagery with AIS, RF signals, optical imagery, and SIGINT.
  • Develop lightweight operational tools, dashboards, and alerting systems for customers.
  • Work directly with intelligence analysts, data scientists, and military operators to prototype solutions and gather requirements.
  • Conduct customer training and translate feedback into technical requirements for product and engineering teams.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of hands-on software engineering experience building and deploying production systems.
  • Strong Python skills plus one of 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, APIs, data pipelines, and deployments in secure, isolated, or air-gapped environments.
  • Familiarity with Linux and basic Kubernetes operations.
  • Strong communication and customer-engagement skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong spoken and written English and willingness to travel 40–60% to regional customer sites.
  • Must be based in Portugal, be a native-level speaker of the deployment country, and be eligible and able to attain relevant national and NATO security clearances at the highest level.
  • Preferred qualifications include defense or intelligence experience, on-premise and air-gapped deployments, geospatial or satellite-imagery experience, MCP or multi-agent systems, deeper Kubernetes, Terraform or Ansible, offline CI/CD, GIS tools, data fusion, and solution engineering or technical consulting experience.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work in Lisbon, with approximately 50% of time on-site at customer locations and 40–60% regional travel.
  • Continuous professional development and training opportunities.
  • Health and wellbeing benefits, with offerings varying by location.
  • A collaborative, inclusive workplace with ownership opportunities from day one.

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About ICEYE

1,001-5,000 employees
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