Senior AI Platform Engineer

Lisbon, Portugal

Apply by 24 Oct 2026

Competitive

Job Ref.: BH-58238

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Job Description

We are looking for a Senior AI Platform Engineer to help build and scale an AI-native enterprise platform where machine learning models, retrieval systems, AI agents, and intelligent applications operate as reliable production services.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role focused on taking AI from experimentation into scalable, secure, observable, and production-ready systems.

What you’ll do
  • Design and build platform capabilities for deploying and operating production AI systems
  • Develop automated pipelines for model deployment, packaging, versioning, testing, rollout and rollback
  • Build evaluation frameworks covering model quality, retrieval performance, latency, cost and business outcomes
  • Implement observability across models, inference services, retrieval pipelines and AI agents
  • Partner with ML Engineers to productionise models and improve deployment reliability
  • Work with Platform Engineering on infrastructure, scaling, security and resilience
  • Support A/B testing, canary releases and progressive deployments
  • Implement governance around reproducibility, versioning, auditability and compliance
  • Automate operational processes and improve engineering productivity
  • Contribute to modern agentic AI development and delivery practices
What we’re looking for
  • Strong experience operating production ML or AI platforms
  • Solid software engineering background with experience in automation and operational tooling
  • Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, containers and distributed systems
  • Deep understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and release automation
  • Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, metrics and tracing
  • Understanding of the ML/AI lifecycle, deployment strategies and production evaluation
  • Experience working across ML, Platform, Data and Product Engineering teams
  • Strong troubleshooting skills with a focus on reliability and operational excellence
  • Ability to simplify complex environments through automation and reusable platform capabilities
Ideal background MLOps / AI Platform Engineering / Cloud Platform Engineering / DevOps for ML / AI Infrastructure

If you have experience building the infrastructure that takes AI and ML systems into reliable enterprise production, I’d be happy to hear from you.


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We believe in equal opportunity for all and actively encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Source Group International Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy 

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