Overview
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About Us: At xgeeks, we are on a mission to accelerate success with AI and Cloud-Native development, making the promise of DevOps, Data, and Digital Solutions impact a reality.
We design and implement AI and Cloud-Native solutions for startups, scale-ups, and some of the biggest companies in Europe, alongside an international, multidisciplinary team, from our offices in Leiria, Lisbon, and Viseu (so far!). As part of the synvert Group, you’ll join a global network of technology experts, with the resources of a larger international tech powerhouse.
Responsibilities
* Lead the strategy, design, and delivery of AI-driven solutions, spanning LLMs, ML models, and intelligent workflows.
* Architect and implement scalable AI systems that integrate with enterprise-grade infrastructures and development practices.
* Collaborate with engineering, product, and leadership to identify opportunities where AI can deliver value and convert them into real solutions.
* Develop and maintain internal tooling, frameworks, and guidelines to enable other teams to work effectively with AI/ML technologies.
* Guide the adoption of GenAI capabilities, including prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and agent-based architectures, with long-term maintainability in mind.
* Ensure systems are observable, testable, performant, and aligned with data privacy, security, and compliance needs.
* Stay informed on the evolving AI/ML ecosystem (GenAI, MLOps, vector search, model serving) and evaluate tools for enterprise readiness.
* Promote a culture of learning, experimentation, and thoughtful adoption of AI technologies across teams.
Qualifications
* 4+ years of experience in software or ML engineering, with a strong foundation in backend architecture and distributed systems.
* Proven track record designing and delivering AI-powered systems in production, preferably in enterprise environments.
* Proficient in Python (or Node.js), with deep experience building robust, maintainable, and scalable services.
* Strong understanding of LLMs, embeddings, prompt engineering, RAG patterns, and GenAI tooling (e.g., LangChain, Transformers, Hugging Face, OpenAI APIs).
* Comfortable building for real-world complexity: multi-tenant setups, observability, performance, cost tracking, and governance.
* Familiarity with modern infrastructure tooling: containerisation (Docker), orchestration (Airflow, Temporal), cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP).
* Experience driving cross-functional initiatives and mentoring technical teams on AI capabilities.
* Fluent in English and an excellent communicator, able to collaborate effectively across disciplines.
Nice-to-Have
* Experience with model serving and inference frameworks (e.g., vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, LiteLLM).
* Familiarity with vector databases (e.g., Qdrant, Weaviate, Pinecone) and semantic search design.
* Exposure to MLOps or AIOps practices, including monitoring, retraining, and lifecycle management.
* Background in data science or ML beyond GenAI use cases—e.g., time-series, anomaly detection, recommendation systems.
* Contributions to open-source tools or internal enablement platforms.
Perks
One of the perks of being part of the synvert Group is joining a global team of over 500 experts from Germany to the UK, Croatia, and the UAE. You’ll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge cloud-native and AI solutions, leveraging synvert’s knowledge and expertise. We are looking for Software Engineers with a keen eye for high-quality execution to join our teams in Portugal.
Join us and be at the forefront of delivering excellence in DevOps, Data, AI and Digital Products. Even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements, please submit your application. We’re happy to meet new people!
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