Senior Agentic AI Engineer

Decskill, founded in 2014 as an IT Consulting Company, places paramount importance on its greatest asset: its people. Our main mission is to deliver value through knowledge and talent, and we achieve this by fostering a culture of excellence and investing in the development and well-being of our people. With over 600 dedicated professionals and offices in Lisbon, Porto, Madrid, and Luxembourg, Decskill operates across three core areas:

Decskill Talent: We believe that our people are key to our success.

Through Decskill Talent, we empower our team to embrace the digital transformation challenges of our clients. We collaborate with clients to drive innovation, ensuring project success and business growth.

Decskill Boost: Equipping our team with the latest tools and methodologies, we optimize Time-to-Market and deliver innovative solutions exceeding client expectations.

Decskill Connect: Our team collaborates closely with clients to implement and manage IT infrastructures that generate long-term value.

At Decskill, we believe that by nurturing and empowering our people to confront the challenges of digital transformation, we create value not only for our clients but also for our entire ecosystem, fostering a digital community dedicated to growth and progress.

We are looking for a Senior Agentic AI Engineer

Responsibilities:

Leading the design, development, and operation of production-grade Agentic AI and Generative AI solutions;

Combine hands-on software engineering with technical ownership of architecture, delivery quality, security, and engineering standards, translating business objectives into reliable AI-enabled services;

Working within an international Agile and DevOps environment, guide engineering teams across the full-service lifecycle: requirements analysis, solution architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, observability, incident resolution, performance optimization, and continuous improvement;

Mentoring developers, reviewing solution quality, defining reusable patterns and guardrails, and ensuring scalable, secure, maintainable, and responsible use of AI systems.

Requirements:

General skills

Senior Level

Experience leading AI agent and service engineering initiatives, with hands-on development and technical ownership of architecture, delivery quality, and engineering standards;

Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Kotlin, including software design patterns, maintainable code structure, automated testing, and production-ready engineering practices;

Ability to guide engineering teams through CI/CD, automated testing, deployment automation, code reviews, GitHub/GitLab workflows, and Agile delivery practices;

Experience with cloud-native application development and deployment on AWS, Microsoft Azure, or GCP, including APIs, integrations, scalable services, and operational readiness.

Technology skills

Senior Level

Hands-on experience designing and delivering Generative AI and LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, semantic search, structured outputs, tool/function calling, evaluation, and performance optimization;

Practical experience building Agentic AI services with LangChain/LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, Microsoft Agent Framework, or comparable technologies;

Ability to define reliable, scalable, and secure agent architectures covering orchestration, tool integration, memory strategies, observability, error handling, guardrails, and lifecycle management;

Experience with AI data and search technologies, including SQL/NoSQL databases, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Azure AI Search, vector databases, embeddings, and semantic retrieval;

Strong focus on Security and Responsible AI, including secure AI design, data protection, model and agent risk management, compliance considerations, and responsible use of AI systems.

If you’re interested in this job please send your CV in English to [email protected] with reference “SS / SSAAE)”

Decskill is committed to equality and non-discrimination with all our talents. We recruit and promote talent based on diversity and inclusion, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality or any other form of discrimination incompatible with the dignity of the human being.