
AI Engineer
Caixa Mágica Software18 hours ago
Remote, Portugal or Lisbon, PortugalMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain, and improve production AI agents for securities-services custody back-office workflows.
- Develop agents in Python using LangGraph, LangChain, and the internal SDK.
- Design task decomposition, tool/function calling, memory and state handling, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
- Engineer, test, version, and safely release prompts and configuration through Kubernetes ConfigMaps.
- Build evaluation datasets, regression suites, quality metrics, and shadow tests for agent quality and readiness.
- Adapt general-purpose agents to local business workflows, terminology, formats, and controls.
- Instrument agents with structured logging and observability for reasoning traces, token usage, latency, and failure modes.
- Manage model and provider changes, context-window constraints, and cost-versus-latency trade-offs.
- Translate operational knowledge about settlements, corporate actions, client queries, and reconciliations into agent behavior.
Requirements
- 3–6 years of Python engineering experience, including at least 1–2 years of LLM or GenAI application experience.
- Practical experience with an agent framework such as CrewAI, LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen, or a similar framework.
- Understanding of ReAct-style loops, tool calling, structured outputs, prompt engineering, RAG patterns, and LLM evaluation techniques.
- Experience consuming REST or gRPC APIs, designing JSON schemas, and writing asynchronous Python.
- Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes, including deployment, log reading, and safe ConfigMap editing.
- Experience with pytest, mocking LLM calls, and deterministic testing for non-deterministic systems.
- Fluency in English.
Benefits
- Permanent employment contract for a long-term project.
- Technology equipment, a SIM card, and a personal smartphone.
- Health and life insurance.
- Social events, team-building activities, training in the latest technologies, and professional growth opportunities.
- Coffee, fruit, snacks, and a welcoming office environment.