# Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Portugal

Role highlights: Role: Forward Deployed AI Engineer Department: Forward Deployed Engineering Location: Portugal (Lisbon) Reports to: VP, Forward Deployed Engineering Working type: Hybrid (On-site at customer locations approx. 50% of time) Must be eligible and able to attain relevant national and NATO security clearances. Must be based in-country and native level speaker of the country you're deploying to. The Mission of the Forward Deployed AI Engineer In this role, you'll be the hands-on AI builder defense and intelligence customers rely on. You’ll deploy ICEYE’s intelligence platform into secure (often air-gapped) environments and rapidly ship AI-powered workflows on top of it-everything from Docker-based deployments to RAG systems fusing SAR imagery with intelligence reports. This is a ship-code-daily role: turning raw satellite data into mission-critical tools analysts use to protect nations. Who We Are ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space. We deliver persistent monitoring capabilities to detect and respond to changes in any location on Earth. ICEYE owns the world's largest and most advanced SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation

- **Id**: 56391
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/iceyefi-forward-deployed-ai-engineer-portugal>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Lisbon, Portugal
- **Countries**: PT
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-06-26T08:52:57Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-15
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T18:36:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 141
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7816
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Geospatial Analytics, Satellite Manufacturing, Earth Observation

## Company

- **Id**: 17599
- **Name**: ICEYE
- **Domain**: iceye.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/iceyefi>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 36
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.583
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 57
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 47000
- **Max usd**: 125000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 456

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Pydantic AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: yes
- **Ansible** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: yes
- **QGIS** — Optional: yes
- **Scale AI** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 140

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Portugal** — Iso: PT; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-06-26T08:52:57Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-09-22T09:18:12Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-30T12:13:32Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 14
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.39
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 140
- **Expected fill days**: 57
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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