About the role
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, secure, and adopted on the stacks our clients actually run. You will be instrumental in building complex enterprise agentic AI solutions, encoding what "good" looks like for secure tool execution, deterministic policy enforcement, and seamless integration with existing enterprise systems. You build the platform adapters, orchestrate the agents, 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
Enterprise Agentic Architecture: The design and deployment of complex agentic AI solutions
Secure Integration & MCP: Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation and integration, ensuring seamless and secure connections between foundation models, enterprise data, and internal tools.
Enterprise Security & Governance: Fine-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), identity propagation, and deterministic policy enforcement across multiple systems to guarantee secure tool execution.
Evaluation & Verification: The domain side of the evaluation layer—encoding correctness rules, safety guardrails, and platform idioms so generated output and agent actions can be implicitly trusted.
The Path to Delivery: The fit into real delivery, including reviewable diffs, IaC, CI/CD for AI systems, integration with partner workflows, and driving adoption.
Requirements
🌿 We're Looking for Someone Who...
Has Senior-Level Impact: You bring a minimum of 7 years of experience relevant for this role
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:
Deep GenAI Engineering: You are a full builder of agentic systems. You have extensive, hands-on experience with agent orchestration frameworks, Model Context Protocol (MCP), complex function calling, structured outputs, and evaluation systems.
Cloud & AI Services: Real depth in Cloud architectures (ideally AWS) to build on Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, and surround AWS infrastructure.
Enterprise Security Fluency: Strong practical understanding of identity propagation, fine-grained RBAC, IAM, and deterministic policy enforcement within distributed/agentic systems.
Strong Production Software Engineering: Python, testing, CI/CD, REST, Docker. You build reusable, secure products, not one-off scripts. Code-as-data fluency (codegen, templating, parsing generated code).
Data Foundation: Strong SQL and data modeling skills to ensure our AI agents interact with enterprise data stores efficiently and accurately.
💬 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.
Benefits
🎊 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.
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