Senior GenAI Engineer

Our Engineering community is growing, and we're now looking for a Senior GenAI Engineer - Databricks (m/f/*) to join our team in Portugal, supporting our global growth. 

As a Senior GenAI Engineer (m/f/*), you will lead the design and implementation of advanced data and AI solutions on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. Your focus will lie in building robust ML pipelines, enabling GenAI capabilities, and delivering production-grade solutions that support data-driven innovation at scale. 

• Flexible work options, including fully remote or hybrid arrangements (candidates must be located in Portugal)
• A chance to accelerate your career and work with outstanding colleagues in a supportive learning community split across 3 continents
• Contribute your ideas to our unique projects and make an impact by turning them into reality
• Balance your work and personal life through our workflow organization and decide yourself if you work at home, in the office, or on a hybrid setup
• Annual performance review, and regular feedback cycles, generating distinct value by connecting colleagues through networks rather than hierarchies
• Individual development plan, professional development opportunities
• Educational resources such as paid certifications, unlimited access to Udemy Business, etc.
• Local, virtual, and global team events, in which UT colleagues become acquainted with one another

• Design and implement GenAI solutions on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform, leveraging LLMs, embedding models, and vector search capabilities.
• Build and maintain RAG pipelines, including text preprocessing, embedding generation, and retrieval using vector databases.
• Work with Databricks' Foundation Model APIs, MLflow, and other AI tooling to prototype and deploy GenAI applications.
• Collaborate with data engineers, ML engineers, and business stakeholders to build impactful GenAI use cases - (e.g., chatbots, document Q&A, code assist, summarization).
• Evaluate and fine-tune foundation models, manage prompt engineering, and optimize performance.
• Contribute to the development of GenAI best practices across model selection, security, governance, and cost-efficiency. 

• 3–5 years of experience in solution engineering or similar hands-on technical roles.
• Hands-on experience with GenAI tools and frameworks, such as OpenAI, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, or similar.
• Experience building and deploying GenAI solutions in production or experimental environments.
• Familiarity with Databricks AI/GenAI stack (Foundation Model APIs, MLflow, Unity Catalog, Vector Search).
• Strong Python skills and good understanding of LLMs, tokenization, embedding models, and prompt engineering.
• Comfort working with unstructured data (text, documents, JSON) and modern GenAI architectures (RAG, LLMOps).
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work across AI, data, and product teams.
• Professional English communication skills (C1-level, written and spoken).

Nice to have

• Experience implementing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines using vector databases (e.g., FAISS, Chroma, Weaviate).
• Familiarity with Lakehouse AI, Unity Catalog for GenAI governance, and Databricks MosaicML.
• Background in NLP, question answering, summarization, or GenAI product development. 

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Ultra Tendency is an international premier Data Engineering consultancy for Big Data, Cloud, Streaming, IIoT and Microservices. We design, build, and operate large-scale data-driven applications for major enterprises such as the European Central Bank, HUK-Coburg, Deutsche Telekom, and Europe's largest car manufacturer. Founded in Germany in 2010, UT has developed a reliable client base and now runs 8 branches in 7 countries across 3 continents.

We do more than just leverage tech, we build it. At Ultra Tendency we contribute source code to +20 open-source projects including Ansible, Terraform, NiFi, and Kafka. Our impact on tech and business is there for anyone to see. Enterprises seek out Ultra Tendency because we solve the problems others cannot.

We love the challenge: together, we tackle diverse and unique projects you will find nowhere else. In our knowledge community, you will be a part of a supportive network, not a hierarchy. Constant learning and feedback are our drivers for stable development. With us you can develop your individual career through work-life balance.

We evaluate your application based on your skills and corresponding business requirements. Ultra Tendency welcomes applications from qualified candidates regardless of race, ethnicity, national or social origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, or age.

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