AI Privacy Engineer

📍 Location: Portugal

🏠 Work model: Mostly remote

🏢 On-site: 1–2 times per month at the client’s offices in Lisbon

🌍 Project: International

About the opportunity

We are looking for an AI Privacy Engineer to join an international project focused on ensuring data protection, privacy and regulatory compliance across AI solutions.

You will work closely with AI Engineering and Data Protection teams, translating privacy and regulatory requirements into practical guidance and ensuring Privacy by Design throughout the AI lifecycle.

What you’ll do

• Act as the AI data protection gate for AI use cases, providing clear risk assessments and go/no-go recommendations;
• Translate GDPR, EU AI Act and internal data protection requirements into actionable guidance for AI Engineering teams;
• Embed Privacy by Design & by Default into AI solutions;
• Conduct DPIAs and AI privacy risk assessments;
• Identify risks related to personal data processing, AI models and system architecture;
• Define and drive practical risk mitigation measures together with Engineering teams;
• Maintain documentation such as data flows, RoPAs, design decisions, controls and safeguards;
• Ensure AI solutions provide clear and auditable evidence of compliance;
• Support Data Subject Rights requests involving AI systems;
• Contribute to AI-related personal data incident readiness and response;
• Act as a bridge between AI Engineering and Data Protection functions.

What we’re looking for

• 3+ years of relevant professional experience, ideally in an international environment;
• Strong working knowledge of GDPR;
• Hands-on experience with DPIAs / Privacy Impact Assessments;
• Experience with AI Risk Assessments and/or AI Governance;
• Practical knowledge or experience with the EU AI Act;
• Good technical understanding of modern AI systems, including:
• LLMs
• RAG
• Vector Stores
• AI Agents
• Tool Use
• Experience with Privacy by Design / Data Protection by Design;
• Experience with International Data Transfers and/or Data Subject Rights is a plus;
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills;
• Comfortable working closely with technical teams and challenging solution design when necessary;
• Pragmatic, outcome-driven and comfortable operating in ambiguous environments;
• Fluent English.

Education

A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field, combined with an additional legal/privacy qualification (e.g. LL.B., LL.M., CIP/E), or a qualified lawyer with additional technology experience.

Interested?

If you have experience combining AI, Privacy/Data Protection and regulatory compliance, I’d be happy to share more details about the opportunity.

📩 Send me your CV or contact me directly.