Bjak

Applied AI Engineer (Portugal)

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3 months ago
Lisbon, PortugalSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build AI agents, workflows, tools, and automations for customer, product, and operations problems.
  • Apply LLMs, retrieval, tool calling, evaluations, guardrails, and automation to practical financial workflows.
  • Create AI-assisted experiences for onboarding, support, KYC, risk review, CRM, operations, document handling, and product intelligence.
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to identify valuable opportunities and improve systems in production.
  • Design systems for accuracy, hallucination risk, latency, cost, security, compliance, and user trust.
  • Convert manual processes into reliable AI-enabled systems that can scale.

Requirements

  • Hands-on engineering experience building AI agents, LLM applications, RAG systems, automation workflows, copilots, or AI-enabled tools.
  • Strong coding ability in Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, or a similar practical technology stack.
  • Ability to ship working systems, evaluate quality, and improve reliability over time.
  • Sound judgment about which processes should and should not be automated.
  • Strong English communication skills.
  • Experience in fintech, banking, support automation, risk, KYC, fraud, CRM, or operations automation is a strong plus.
  • Demonstrated personal contributions to building, shipping, or scaling a serious product, platform, or system.
  • Candidates must already be based in Portugal.

Benefits

  • Remote work arrangement for candidates based in Portugal.
  • English is the main working language across global teams.
  • Fast interview process, with an aim to complete interviews and make an offer within one week for strong candidates.
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About Bjak

201-500 employees

Bjak builds an online insurance marketplace for consumers in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, enabling comparison and purchase of car, health, life, and travel policies. Its business model is aggregator-based, earning commissions and fees from insurers and partners while streamlining digital applications and renewals. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Selangor, it is privately held and is expanding from insurance comparison into broader fintech services via a planned finance super app.

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