Lead AI Engineer

Upwork

3 months ago

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Lisbon, Portugal

Onsite

Full Time

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A Lead AI Engineer on the Data Platform & Services team builds and deploys production-grade AI-powered systems to support data engineering, analytics, and product use cases. The role focuses on designing agentic orchestration frameworks, natural language querying capabilities, and evaluation strategies for LLMs and prompts to unlock scalable insights. The position partners with cross-functional teams to democratize data access and accelerate decision-making across the company.

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