Principal AI Engineer

## Principal AI EngineerApply: Portugal
- Lisbon: Full time: Posted Today: R1765There are NO limits to your career: come shape the future and be part of a truly unique global culture at OutSystemsRole Overview Come shape the future of software creation and be part of a truly unique global culture at OutSystems As an AI Software Developer on our AI Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) team, you will design and evolve the internal frameworks that accelerate our company's product development. Your work will directly empower our engineers, product managers, and architects by building cutting-edge tools and agents, making Generative AI a first-class citizen in our software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities
* Architect and evolve our AI-agentic Product Development Lifecycle framework, ensuring scalable, secure, and robust solutions.
* Design and orchestrate AI agents, subagents, and skills, optimizing multi-agent systems for product development contexts.
* Develop clean, maintainable, and well-tested code using advanced AI techniques like prompt engineering, RAG, and tool calling.
* Integrate and build MCP servers and tooling ecosystems, gathering continuous feedback from internal stakeholders to refine solutions.
* Implement continuous delivery pipelines and product development best practices while troubleshooting complex systemic issues.
* Collaborate and mentor global team members and framework users, providing clear architectural documentation and technical guidance.Must-Have Requirements* 4+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading development teams or initiatives.
* 1+ years of dedicated AI Engineering experience (e.g., prompt engineering, agentic systems, RAG).
* Proficiency in writing clean, well-tested code in Python, GoLang, or TypeScript.
* Solid experience designing and integrating APIs (RESTful, OAuth 2.0, token-based auth) with a strong understanding of security boundaries.
* Hands-on fluency with AI-native IDEs (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot) and AI CLI assistants (e.g., Claude Code).
* Fluency in English with excellent communication and troubleshooting skills.Nice-to-Have Requirements* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (candidates with equivalent practical experience are highly encouraged to apply).
* Prior experience specifically building or consuming Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.## More about OutSystemsOutSystems is a leading AI Development Platform built for the enterprise. Global organizations trust OutSystems to rapidly build mission-critical apps and agents, modernize legacy processes with agentic systems, and govern their entire AI portfolio across complex regulatory environments, all on one unified platform.
As the future becomes agentic, our customers need us now more than ever. While AI has opened the door to extraordinary possibilities, most large organizations find themselves stuck on one side of the \"enterprise gap\" because AI by itself doesn't solve their complex use cases and business challenges. OutSystems bridges the \"enterprise gap\" by combining the speed of generative AI with a deterministic, enterprise-grade framework. We provide the tools for teams of any size to deliver high-quality, reliable AI solutions that drive real business impact.
We are looking for passionate, talented, and motivated people to join us as we empower organizations to build, deploy, and scale the next generation of enterprise software. While we are leading the charge into the agentic era, our mission is broader: we are the platform enterprise leaders trust to evolve their entire business, accelerating innovation through secure, governed human-AI collaboration.
OutSystems is a global company, with more than 900k developer community members, 1,700 employees, more than 600 partners, and thousands of active customers in over 75 countries and across 21 industries. Founded in 2001, OutSystems now has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, the UAE, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, India, and Singapore, and includes a thriving, worldwide community of remote employees.
Our customers are some of the world's most recognizable brands across diverse industries— such as Toyota, Heineken, Bosch, KeyBank, and UCLA—who trust OutSystems to deliver ROI and transformational impact.
Consistently recognized as a leader by top analyst firms Gartner, IDC and Forrester, OutSystems continues to shape the future of enterprise software development in the agentic era. We are proud to be named a leader in more than 100 categories on G2, including #1 in Customer Satisfaction in Enterprise Low Code Development, and most recently as a leader in AI Agent Building in the G2 Spring 2026 Reports.## Working at OutSystemsOur culture is built on our core values of Trust, Customer Success, Innovation, and Alignment. We operate as one global OutSystems t