AI Engineer (Python, Azure)

Lisbon, Portugal

Senior (4-6 Years)

Hybrid

English Required Not Accepting Candidates Living Abroad

Logistics and parcel delivery company operating across Europe. A central AI team building GenAI-powered applications, agents, and workflow automation components for internal business teams, with the goal of deploying production-grade AI solutions that can be monitored, improved, and reused across the organization.

What you will do

Build AI applications, assistants, agents, and workflow automation components using modern GenAI engineering patterns.
Design and implement integrations with AI platform services, APIs, enterprise systems, and data platforms.
Develop retrieval, tool-use, orchestration, evaluation, monitoring, and guardrail components for production AI solutions.
Collaborate with data engineers and data scientists to connect models, prompts, workflows, and data pipelines into reliable end-to-end solutions.
Support the implementation of agentic workflows that can be reused across teams.
Improve developer experience, engineering standards, reusable templates, and production readiness for AI software delivery.

Location and work model

Hybrid (2 days/week in the office, Lisboa)

Python — software engineering
SQL Server
Azure AI Services
Experience building GenAI applications, assistants, agents, or AI-enabled workflow automation
Understanding of RAG, prompt and context engineering, tool calling, evaluation, and orchestration
Experience with APIs, cloud-native services, data pipelines, and enterprise integration patterns
English B2

Nice to have

Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft Agent Framework, LangChain, MCP, or comparable agent frameworks
GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar GenAI engineering tools
Experience with agentic workflow builders, dashboards, or user-facing AI applications
Snowflake, vector databases, observability tooling, or LLM gateway patterns
Published research or academic work involving Python and Deep Learning

We connect IT professionals with projects that match their skills, professional experience, and goals, then we offer a career progression program, delivered by in-house specialists - our People Experience Partners - to guide them through our journey with us.

What we offer:

A project that matches your skills and ambitions, as well as your preferences for working policies and culture.
A competitive salary with awesome benefits and opportunities to leverage your knowledge and network to earn additional income.
An empowering and respectful work culture enriched with social and learning events.
A People Experience Partner specially assigned to you - your go-to career guide, responsible for supporting your growth, facilitating training, and ensuring your work-life balance at KWAN.

At KWAN, they make sure that I feel comfortable with the client I’m working for and that what I’m doing aligns with my career aspirations.

Luis Caldeira, DevOps @ KWAN

At KWAN, I’m given the space to be myself and do what I love. I have control over the projects I work on, as well as the direction of my career.

Pedro Fonseca, Front End Developer @ KWAN

I see my People Experience Partner as someone who is always available to provide me with motivation and constant feedback, which helps me be sure that I am in the right place.

Josimar dos Reis, Software Developer @ KWAN

I know that I’ve contributed to the growth of a company that truly values a “people first culture”, because my ideas, experiences, and individuality were always appreciated.

João Nascimento, Software Developer (KWAN Alumni)

My two years at KWAN were an incredible experience! From the start, I was welcomed into a warm and collaborative environment where I felt truly supported.

Laís Ortiz, Software Developer @ (KWAN Alumni)

Grab this opportunity, apply now!