Unbabel

Technology

AIEngineer(Python)

€30–45k ~AI est. Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for mid candidates.

The Brief

“AI Engineer (Python) at Unbabel. Skills: Machine learning, NLP models, AI services, Data pipelines. Lead applied research. Solve challenging problems”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Technical challenges

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

2+ years industry experience, Applied AI fundamentals, Machine learning fundamentals, Write clean code, Write maintainable code, Write well-tested code, Build APIs, Consume APIs, Relational databases, Non-relational databases, Develop production systems, Maintain production systems, Reliability attention, Security attention, Agile development environments, Collaborative development environments, Professional English proficiency

Nice to Have

Python web frameworks, FastAPI experience, Flask experience, Deploy LLMs, Operate LLMs, Model serving systems, Own AI services, Monitor AI services, Tune AI services, Observability tools, Prometheus experience, Grafana experience, PagerDuty experience, Cloud practices, DevOps practices, AWS experience, CI/CD experience, Infrastructure as code, Terraform experience, Microservices architecture, Container orchestration, Kubernetes experience, ML projects contributions, NLP projects contributions

What You'll Do.

Lead applied research

Solve challenging problems

Build scalable systems

Develop data pipelines

Develop computing infrastructure

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Agile development environments; Collaborative development environments

Communication Scope

English proficiency

Process & Methodology

Agile

Full Job Description

Our Unbabel division is seeking a motivated AI Engineer to join our AI Productization Team, helping scale and deliver cross-platform language solutions, including translation and customer support automation, to enterprise partners. Are you interested in solving technical challenges across complex software systems? Do you enjoy building robust integrations that connect diverse platforms and workflows? As part of a collaborative team, you’ll contribute to the development, maintenance, and expansion of core AI services that power reliable, high-quality language solutions. This role is ideal for someone looking to grow their engineering skills by building new integrations, improving system performance, and contributing to the rollout of new AI-driven capabilities. Responsibilities: * Lead applied research initiatives to solve challenging problems in translation and customer support automation * Design, implement, evaluate, and optimize ML and NLP models for real-world machine translation use cases * Work with large-scale, multilingual datasets to build accurate and scalable systems * Develop, optimize, and maintain AI services and supporting infrastructure in production environments * Contribute to the development of data pipelines and computing infrastructure that support efficient machine translation workflows ## Requirements Must Haves: * 2+ years of relevant industry experience * Strong understanding of applied AI and machine learning fundamentals * Proven ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code * Experience building and consuming APIs (REST and/or gRPC) * Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB) * Experience developing and maintaining production systems, with attention to reliability and security * Experience working in Agile, collaborative development environments * Professional proficiency in English (written and spoken) Nice to Haves: * Experience with Python web frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask *

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