Senior AI Platform Engineer

# Think Data Be Smart #

About Us: DataSmart is a Portuguese company, positioning itself as a consulting company of excellence, with over 20 years of existence. We are specialized in Technologies and Information Systems services, for the Portuguese and International markets. We pride ourselves on fostering a culture of involvement, experience, and excellence.

Join our team as a Senior AI Platform Engineer (Hybrid – Lisbon, Coimbra, Braga)!

What You’ll Do:

• Design and develop agentic workflows, tools, and automation across the SDLC.
• Build, integrate, and orchestrate AI agents, leveraging tool use, MCP servers, and context engineering.
• Implement evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and quality checks to ensure reliable AI-generated outputs.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and internal developer tooling.
• Integrate AI-powered workflows with enterprise systems, including Jira, source control platforms, and CI/CD tools.
• Develop and enhance internal developer platforms, CLIs, and workflow engines.
• Improve engineering efficiency, software reliability, and the overall developer experience.
• Take ownership of complex technical challenges, evaluate alternative approaches, and drive implementation independently.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including senior or lead-level responsibilities.
• Proven hands-on experience building and deploying AI agents in production, including agent orchestration, MCP, and evaluation frameworks.
• Strong background in Platform Engineering, DevOps, and CI/CD.
• Proficiency in Python and TypeScript; familiarity with Kotlin, Go, or Rust is a plus.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably GCP, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), using Terraform or similar tools.
• Experience developing internal developer platforms, command-line interfaces (CLIs), or workflow engines.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end SDLC and developer productivity practices.
• Hands-on experience using agentic coding tools in day-to-day software development.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, technical ownership, and the ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision.
• English proficiency at C1 level or higher, both written and spoken.
• Availability to work in a hybrid model in Lisbon, Coimbra or Braga.

At DataSmart, you will have the opportunity to integrate into a solid company and participate in projects of high recognition, nationally and internationally, with an appealing technological environment and career progression.

Excellence in the way to the future!

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