Senior Applied AI Engineer
Renesas Electronics3 days ago
Lisbon, PortugalSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop agentic flows using off-the-shelf LLMs for hardware design and requirements-management use cases.
- Build, deploy, evaluate, and continuously improve AI-driven systems and features.
- Create evaluation pipelines, metrics, benchmarks, and test-suite extensions to measure system performance.
- Benchmark models, prompts, and approaches for speed, cost, and accuracy, using techniques such as fine-tuning, RAG, caching, prompt compression, and distillation.
- Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, and designers to ship product improvements to customers.
- Participate in the full AI product lifecycle from experimentation through production deployment.
Requirements
- Profound knowledge of LLM engineering and production 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 customer-facing features.
- 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 for employees and extendable to family members.
- Tax-exempt daily meal allowance provided through a prepaid meal card.
- Eligible employees may apply to work abroad 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 support through nilo.health, including 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 workplace, fresh fruit, snacks, free coffee and drinks, and rooftop terrace.
- Regular permanent employment; remote work is not available.
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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.