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Senior AI Engineer

askblue
Portugalfull_timeVerifiedPosted 26 Mar 2026

About the role

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We were born in 2013, and we provide services in the field of information technology.

We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join our company in one of our projects, in Lisbon.

Tasks:

  •  Be comfortable with experimentation; be willing to approach a problem in multiple ways via rapid prototyping;
  • Identify appropriate datasets and drive annotation for machine learning techniques;
  • Develop (together with relevant expert talents) and maintain machine learning applications and products;
  • Iteratively (re-)train the developed models and run evaluation experiments in collaboration with others, performing statistical analysis of results;
  • Keep an eye on state-of-the-art machine learning solutions, emerging technologies and developments in academia;
  • Translate and communicate technical concepts and solutions to different stakeholders.


Requirements:

  • Expertise in the Scala programming language is a must;
  • Experience using Scala Play Framework;
  • Advanced elastic search experience;
  • Postgres database or other relational database experience;
  • Experience in content apps;
  • Experience in microservices;
  • Knowledge of a variety of AI techniques such as natural language processing, classification, clustering, optimization, deep neural networks with a good understanding of the mathematical underpinning and real-world advantages/drawbacks preferred;
  • Fluency in English is required, any additional language skills are an asset;
  • Knowledge of data structures, semantic extraction, and text representation in an NLP context;
  • Proficiency in Python (OOP) preferred;
  • Experience in using technologies such as Docker. Azure, GCP and AWS;
  • Experience in creating APIs (RESTful, Asynchronous, etc.);
  • Familiarity with the concepts and applications of LLMs a plus;
  • Ability to write clean, production ready code;
  • Any other core skills to bring to the team are a huge plus, such as frontend development, experience administering cloud systems, deploying serverless cloud technology, deep Linux knowledge, etc.;
  • In order to fit in our collaborative and international environment, you are creative, dynamic, and are able to work independently yet transparently towards colleagues. In addition, you are also a strong team player, both with colleagues as well as with external partners. Both individual and team problem solving skills are crucial in this position.


Work Arrangement: 

  • Hybrid (On-site 2x per week)


Offer:

  • Health Insurance;

  • 3 and a half days of leave per year + 22 vacation days;

  • Unlimited access to Udemy.


If you are interested in the opportunity, upload your C.V. or send it to filipa.pinto@askblue.com with the reference #16788891 in the subject.

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