Senior AI Engineer - AI Systems

Summary

Senior AI Engineer designs and builds AI systems using LLMs, prompt engineering, and agentic workflows in Python, with a focus on evaluation-driven development and cloud data platforms.

Based in Portugal, Wire IT is your specialized IT consulting partner with 18 years of experience driven by an experienced and senior team that helps clients make the right decisions in a fast-moving market.

Wire IT's ambition is to grow while keeping true to its nature: agile, people-centered, and fun. As we like to say: It's not only what we do, it's how we manage that truly make the difference..

If you're looking for more than just a job - if you're looking for a place where you can truly make a difference - you might be the next person to join WIRE IT.

Role: Senior AI Engineer - AI Systems

Location: 100% Remote, Portugal

Required skills:

  • At least 6 years of professional experience as an AI Engineer or in a similar role.
  • Strong production software engineering: Python, testing, packaging, CI/CD, async, REST, Docker. You build products, not scripts.
  • Real depth in LLM application engineering: prompt design, function calling, structured outputs, RAG, vector stores, with the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs.
  • Evaluation-driven development as a core habit, not an afterthought. You treat evals as the source of truth.
  • Experience building agentic systems end to end: systems that plan, write code, validate their own output, and improve over time.
  • Familiar with the orchestration landscape (LangGraph, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI) and opinionated about when a thin custom harness beats a framework.
  • Working fluency with at least one cloud data platform and SQL: enough to build eval and verification infrastructure that your applied-data counterpart fills with domain rules. You do not need to be the deepest data expert in the room.

We offer:

  • ­No-term full-time contract;
  • Health Insurance;
  • 22 days of paid vacation;
  • 4 extra days annually (Carnival, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, Birthday);
  • Meal Allowance on card (Coverflex);
  • Referral Bonus;
  • Special discounts and flex options;
  • Training annual budget;
  • A great team-oriented culture;
  • Chance to become a part of a dynamically growing international company;
  • Challenging projects giving the unique opportunity to grow and learn.

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