Senior AI Engineer - Applied Data

At Mindera, we believe that software is built by people, for people with high performance systems that impact users worldwide. We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer - Applied Data to join an agile, collaborative team where your voice matters as much as your code. You make the accelerators produce output that is correct, idiomatic, and adopted on the stacks our clients actually run. You encode what "good" looks like for each platform into validators and evals, build the platform adapters, and make the accelerators fit how delivery teams really work. We value empathy, self-organization, and the courage to take risks. If you love solving complex problems and believe that teaching others is the best way to learn, you’ll feel right at home here. National and international expected traveling time varies according to project/client and organizational needs: 0%-15% estimated. 💪 What will you own The platform adapters that target each design partner's stack (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS), and the abstraction that emerges once a second stack forces it. The domain side of the evaluation and verification layer: encoding each platform's idioms and correctness rules so generated output can be trusted. The high-value generation targets with partners: ingestion and pipelines, transformation logic, warehouse and catalog scaffolding, orchestration, IaC and CI/CD, and the governance accelerators where partner pain is real (contracts, lineage, metadata, PII, data quality). The fit into real delivery: reviewable diffs, integration with partner workflows, the path to adoption. 🌿 We're Looking for Someone Who... Has Senior-Level Impact: You bring a minimum of 5 years as a data engineer with a track record of end-to-end delivery in fast-paced environments. Values Collaboration: You have professional fluency in English , are an excellent collaborator between developers and leadership, and have the ability to guide others. Embraces Engineering Best Practices: You have a solid understanding of engineering and architectural principles , and you are comfortable collaborating on CI/CD workflows and using version control (Git) 🛠 Your Technical Toolkit: Strong production software engineering : Python, testing, CI/CD, REST, Docker. You build reusable products, not one-off pipelines. Real depth in modern cloud data platforms: You have gone deep on at least one of Databricks/Spark, Snowflake, or BigQuery, are strong in SQL and data modelling, and can reason confidently across the others and pick up a partner's stack fast. Enough AI engineering to be a full builder on an agentic system: prompt design, structured outputs, function calling, and evaluation, with the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs. You co-own the AI work, you do not just hand requirements to your AI-systems counterpart. Code-as-data fluency: codegen, templating, validating and parsing generated code, producing reviewable output. You work close to delivery teams and design partners, and you care that the thing gets used. 💬 Recruitment Stages Screening - Reviewing CVs and eligibility verification. 1st Call - 30 minute call to access Technical & Culture Fit with IT Recruiter. Tech Interview - 2 hour call with two of our Cloud Engineers to assess your technical knowledge in depth. The interview includes a theoretical section based on test-case scenarios as well as live practical exercises Cultural Interview - 1-hour call with a Minder to assess cultural fit with Mindera and align expectations for both parties. Project/Client Call - A 30 minute to 1 hour call with the client or project team to assess your technical fit for a specific project and align expectations. 🎊 What’s in it for You? We work in Self-organization culture and therefore we offer a flexible, supportive environment where you are trusted to manage your own time and career. Well-being First: health insurance and "Open Holidays" because we trust you to know when you need a break. Flexible Working hours and Work: Work from our vibrant hubs in Porto, Aveiro, or Coimbra, or choose a remote setup that works for you. As long as you are based in Portugal :) Career Growth: A dedicated budget for training and conferences, plus a transparent profit-sharing model. Tools for Success: Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs, plus Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;) Team work makes the dream Work: Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun! 🫂Why Mindera? At Mindera, we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love. We believe diverse teams build better products. Mindera is a place where you can be your authentic self, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, religion, or background. We strive to create an environment where everyone feels they belong and has an equal opportunity to grow. Most of all, you get to work with a group of great people in a politics free environment where the whole team owns the project together. Our culture reflects our lean and self-management mindset, encouraging colleagues to take risks, make decisions, collaborate openly, and communicate with everyone. Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand, and we value commitment, feedback, and empathy. We are proud of our work and love learning about everything as we navigate an Agile, Lean, and collaborative environment. Curious to know more? Check out our Blog and our Handbook ! With offices located across Portugal , United Kingdom , United States , India , Romania , Brazil, Morocco , Spain , Australia, Vietnam join us as we expand and influence the future of software engineering worldwide.