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sa.global

Senior AI Platform Engineer

sa.global

. Design, build, and operate production-grade REST APIs and backend services powering empower's Data Hub and Agent Workflows .

Posted 9/24/2026full-timeLisbon • PortugalSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in backend software development with a focus on building and integrating production-grade REST APIs, data pipelines, and AI capabilities. Proficient in Python and familiar with cloud-native deployments, ensuring service reliability and performance in complex systems.

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Backend Software DevelopmentPython ProgrammingAPI Design and IntegrationCloud-Native DeploymentData Pipeline Management

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Hard Skills
REST API DevelopmentDistributed ServicesLLM/AI API IntegrationPostgreSQLContainerizationCI/CDGraph DatabasesOrchestration ToolsRAG FrameworksKnowledge Graph Systems
Soft Skills
Structured CommunicationSystemic ThinkingOwnershipQuality DisciplineComfort with Ambiguity
Tools & Technologies
AzureAWSGCPMLflowPrefectAirflowDatabricksClaude CodeCursorCopilot
Industry Keywords
AI/LLM ToolsData HubAgent WorkflowsMCPLegal DomainArchitecture/Engineering/ConstructionERP DomainsBusiness Knowledge GraphHybrid Vector SearchModel Context Protocol

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AirflowAWSAzureCloudERPGoogle Cloud PlatformNeo4jPostgresPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Design, build, and operate production-grade REST APIs and backend services powering empower's Data Hub and Agent Workflows
  • Integrate open-source and commercial AI/LLM tools into backend systems, including RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector search, and model routing across providers
  • Build and maintain data pipelines and integrations feeding the Business Knowledge Graph
  • Own service reliability, performance, security, monitoring, cost, and scaling
  • Collaborate with AI Product Engineers to expose platform primitives, including tool endpoints, retrieval APIs, and data contracts, for agent workflows
  • Integrate open-source and commercial AI capabilities cleanly and reliably into the platform foundation
  • Build scalable APIs, distributed services, data pipelines, and retrieval infrastructure connecting enterprise data, knowledge, and AI capabilities across the empower platform

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5+ years of backend software development experience
  • Python as the primary language for AI-adjacent work
  • Proven track record designing and shipping production APIs and distributed services
  • Hands-on experience integrating LLM/AI APIs, including Anthropic, OpenAI, or open-weight models via vLLM/Ollama, into real applications
  • Working knowledge of retrieval architectures built on PostgreSQL with pgvector and pg_search
  • Knowledge of chunking and hybrid vector/full-text search
  • Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) for exposing tools and data to AI agents
  • Comfort with cloud-native deployment; Azure preferred, with AWS/GCP experience transferable
  • Experience with containerization and CI/CD
  • Daily hands-on use of Claude Code or a comparable AI coding agent such as Cursor, Copilot, or Codex
  • Familiarity with Neo4j or other graph databases
  • Exposure to MLflow or another experiment-tracking/model-lifecycle tool
  • Hands-on experience with Prefect or a comparable orchestrator such as Airflow
  • Working knowledge of LlamaIndex or a comparable RAG framework
  • Experience with knowledge-graph or ontology-backed systems
  • Prior exposure to services-centric, legal, Architecture/Engineering/Construction, or ERP domains
  • Experience with Azure AI, Databricks, or similar enterprise data platforms
  • Ability to demonstrate agency, systemic thinking, structured communication for AI-directed work, ownership and quality discipline, and comfort with ambiguity

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Remote work option
  • Hybrid working model with flexibility depending on candidate location