Lead AI Engineer.

As a Lead 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. What we value most is strong full stack software engineering expertise in product development, preferably in building AI Products. If you're excited about building complex systems, learning new technologies, and shaping the future of AI led software development, we want to hear from you.
Design of AI systems, cross teams and in collaboration with multiple stakeholders.
Work closely with Research Scientists and other AI Engineers to prototype, implement, and productionize innovative features—gaining expertise in AI on the job.
Build highly available, fault-tolerant AI systems with a focus on scalability, performance, and reliability.
Contribute to AI data pipelines and feedback loops that support continuous improvement of intelligent features.
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 systems,, 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 infrastructure.
Bachelors and preferably Masters in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
~7+ years of hands-on professional experience with 5+ years in SW Engineering and 2+ years in applied AI roles, with a proven track record of delivering impactful products.
~ Strong programming skills with a focus on designing and implementing end-to-end full stack solutions.
~ 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 design and implement end-to-end solutions.
~ Experience in Python is a must, in C# is valued.
~ Experience with Web Development, using React (plus)
~ A collaborative mindset with a willingness to learn new domains, including AI

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.
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. But with the right platform, AI doesn’t have to add to the chaos. 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 customers are some of the world's most recognizable brands across diverse industries—brands like Toyota, Heineken, Bosch, KeyBank, and UCLA. 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.
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. And we give our teams space to be proactive and creative.
Real career opportunities. Yes, vertical career progression is a possibility, but it's not the only one. It helps us connect our individual work to the bigger picture and sometimes even uncover a better way.
OutSystems nurtures an inclusive culture of diversity, where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic self and perform at their best. 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.