Principal AI Engineer

There are NO limits to your career: come shape the future and be part of a truly unique global culture at OutSystems!

About This Role

As a Principal AI Engineer at OutSystems, you will bridge research innovations and production systems to deploy cutting-edge AI across the full application lifecycle, from design to development and production. You'll work closely with Research Scientists and AI Engineers to transform state-of-the-art models into robust, scalable, and efficient software development experiences. Your expertise will directly impact how developers interact with our platform, making complex development tasks intuitive and accessible.

Key Responsibilities

• Design of ML/AI systems, cross teams and in collaboration with multiple stakeholders. 

• Contribute to OutSystems’ AI platform and services architecture.

• Collaborate closely with Research Scientists to design, prototype, and implement state-of-the-art AI models and algorithms, ensuring they are optimized for production scale and performance.

• Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant systems for serving sophisticated AI models, focusing on reliability, efficiency, and MLOps best practices.

• Shape data collection strategies and feedback loops, enabling continuous learning and improvement of our AI capabilities and product offerings.

• Guide, mentor, and elevate the technical capabilities of other AI Engineers, fostering best practices in design, implementation, and AI development.

• Maintain deep knowledge of the state-of-the-art in AI/ML models, agents, and dev tools, championing the adoption of relevant advancements within the team and company.

• Interact and collaborate cross-functionally with different teams to identify opportunities and improve our AI products and data infrastructure.

Preferred Qualifications

• M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field (e.g., Electrical Engineering, Physics, Statistics).

• 10+ years of hands-on professional experience in applied AI/ML roles, with a proven track record of delivering impactful solutions.

• Demonstrable experience deploying and managing Large Language Models (LLMs) in production environments

• Proven ability in designing, building, and shipping complex, data-intensive, and scalable systems in a real-world setting.

• Strong problem-solving skills and programming proficiency, with the ability to architect and implement end-to-end solutions (from data processing and model development to deployment and monitoring). Experience in Python is a must, in C# is valued.

• Be creative, ambitious and curious. Be resourceful and innovative.

The Longer Story:

OutSystems is a global leader transforming how companies innovate through software, empowering IT leaders with a better way to build the software that matters most. We are looking for talented and motivated people to join us in helping companies solve some of their most strategic business challenges, from modernizing their workplace processes to transforming their employee and customer experiences. As a member of the OutSystems global team, you will help build, deliver, manage, and evolve the software that is a low-code market leader and preferred by professional developers around the world.

OutSystems is a truly global company, with more than 800,000 developer community members, 1,700 employees, more than 500 partners, and thousands of active customers in over 75 countries and across 21 industries. Founded in 2001, OutSystems has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, the UAE, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, India, and Singapore, and of course has a thriving, worldwide community of remote employees.

Working at OutSystems:

Our goal is to ensure that OutSystems is a place for bright, happy, and motivated people who share a common purpose and take pride in excellent work towards our vision. Our culture is focused on building agility at scale, which allows us to operate with a high drive in a competitive market. At OutSystems, we operate like a startup at scale, where teams act as coordinated "startups" - a true Federation of Teams Culture. Our attributes define the core behaviors that fuel our innovation and foster agility at scale. We encourage our team members to collaborate, focus on results, act quickly, understand our business, and reinvent themselves.

What do we have to offer you? 

• A company that continues to grow, change, and innovate, and gives our teams the space to be proactive and creative. 

• Real career opportunities. We care about growth and development. Vertical career progression is an obvious possibility, but we also offer the possibility for lateral moves, joining different teams, and mastering specific skills. 

• Work colleagues that are as smart, hardworking, and driven as you – and a team that is global. 

• Disrupting the status quo is in our DNA. In fact, it’s why our company exists.

• We “Ask Why” a lot. It helps us connect our individual work to the bigger picture and sometimes even uncover a better way.

Are you ready for the next step in your career? Then we’d love to hear from you!

OutSystems nurtures an inclusive culture of diversity, where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic self and perform at their best. A company that embraces the creativity and innovation that comes through diverse perspectives. We are committed to creating a team that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives, and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive equal consideration regardless of race, place of origin, color, age, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by law.

Join us in disrupting the status quo of the low-code market, we give you the power to "Ask Why", you give our customers the power to innovate through software!