Principal AI Engineer

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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.

This role is critical in scaling our AI & Data Platform serving as the foundational layer for OutSystems' growing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning initiatives. You will play a key part in ensuring our AI & Data platform meets the demanding requirements of AI/ML model training, evaluation, and serving, supporting our goal to deploy cutting-edge AI across the full application lifecycle.

What You Will Lead/Do Or Key Responsibilities

• Design of Data/ML/AI systems, cross teams, and in collaboration with multiple stakeholders.
• Implementation of OutSystems' AI platform and services.
• Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant systems for serving sophisticated AI models, focusing on reliability, efficiency, and best practices.
• Deep knowledge of and demonstrated expertise in designing and building a highly scalable data platform for ingesting, processing, storing, and forwarding large amounts of data.
• 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.
• Work with Product Engineering teams to turn internal and product requirements into sustainable solutions that enable efficient software engineering and system visibility for our clients.
• Lead the end-to-end design and development of scalable data platforms and pipelines for ingesting, processing, and storing large-scale data, specifically considering the unique requirements of AI/ML model training, evaluation, feature serving, and inference workloads.
• Develop architectural patterns and best practices that align with business and technical goals, focusing on cost efficiency and scalability.

Qualifications / What You Need To Succeed

• Bachelor's and preferably Master's in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field (e.g., Electrical Engineering, Physics, Statistics).
• 13+ years of hands-on professional experience with 5+ years in SW Engineering and 5+ years in applied AI/ML roles, with a proven track record of delivering impactful products.
• 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 enables enterprise teams to build AI-powered applications and agents that reduce manual work, streamline internal operations, and accelerate impact. A proven low-code foundation combined with agentic AI and AI app generation capabilities empowers teams to move up to 10x faster with the assurance of security, scalability, and governance built in.

As the future becomes agentic, our customers need us now more than ever. AI has opened the door to extraordinary possibilities—but inside the enterprise, things are moving fast and feeling chaotic. Some early adopters are making progress in production, but for many, AI tools are sprawling without governance, data isn't ready, and talent isn't there yet. Enterprises are still drowning in application backlogs and struggling with legacy systems. But with the right platform, AI doesn't have to add to the chaos. It can become the breakthrough that brings clarity—and drives real, enterprise-wide impact. At OutSystems, we've built that platform, providing the tools necessary for enterprises to overcome these hurdles.

We are looking for passionate, talented, and motivated people to join us in helping our customers build, deploy, and scale apps and agents—fast, helping them accelerate innovation while enabling secure, governed human-AI collaboration.

OutSystems is a truly global company, with more than 850,000 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.

Amongst our 2,400 customers are some of the world's most recognizable brands across diverse industries—brands like Toyota, Heineken, Bosch, KeyBank, and UCLA. These customers are the reason we have a 4.6 star rating on G2. Their success is ours, and their stories demonstrate tangible ROI and transformational impact. We are a 9x Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Low-Code Application Platforms and a multi-year leader in the Forrester Wave. We're recognized not just as leaders but as visionaries with a strong ability to execute, now extending our leadership into the AI and agentic application development arena.

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 doing excellent work to pursue our vision of providing the AI-powered low-code development platform enterprise leaders trust to build, secure, and evolve their business applications, agents, and core systems. Our culture is focused on our core values of trust, customer success, innovation, and alignment. Our team members operate with transparency, integrity, and accountability, define success through the lens of the outcomes we deliver for our customers, push the boundaries with excellence, and work together toward our shared vision to deliver on what matters most.

What do we have to offer you?

• A company that is always growing, changing, and innovating. We challenge each other to innovate in our products, in our team, and how we use our own technology. And we give our teams space to be proactive and creative.
• Real career opportunities. We care about growth and development. Yes, vertical career progression is a possibility, but it's not the only one. From lateral moves and joining different teams to mastering specialized skills, we support your growth no matter what your goals are.
• Work colleagues that are as smart, hard-working, and driven as you. We act as one global OutSystems team, taking ownership and working together toward a shared vision.
• 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.