AI & Data Engineer (all genders)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 15, 2026. First seen by Alion on Apr 27, 2026. Thorit scores B on the Alion truth index.
About the Role
You'll be the senior engineering anchor of our Lisbon AI hub. You'll ship production-grade agentic AI systems for enterprise clients (orchestration, RAG, evals, deployment, observability) AND own the data plumbing they depend on (dbt models on a warehouse layer over HubSpot and client data).
The AI Team today has more qualified AI requests in the pipeline than engineers capable of taking them from prototype to production. You change that.
What You'll Do
You'll ship 3+ production agentic AI systems to enterprise clients within 12 months (deployed, signed off, in active use)
You'll build and maintain our reusable agent framework: tool-calling layer, prompt management, evals harness, observability, usable by future AI Engineers across all sites
You'll build and operate the internal data warehouse layer (dbt models, source freshness checks, tested transformations) for both client AI engagements and internal analytics
You'll establish our evals and data quality bar: every shipped agent gets documented evals, drift monitoring, and a rollback plan; every shipped pipeline gets tests and freshness SLAs
You'll maintain ≥ 85% billable utilisation across active engagements
You'll co-author 2+ public-facing technical assets (blog post, webinar, conference talk) on our AI or data engineering approach
You'll contribute to AI proposal and scoping conversations as the technical authority alongside Sales and Advisory
What You Bring
Must-haves
Direct experience building and shipping agent systems using tool-calling LLMs (Claude, GPT, Gemini) to production. You understand tool schemas, multi-step reasoning, error handling, retries, observability
Hands-on data engineering experience with dbt (or comparable), modeling CRM or B2B data into a clean dimensional layer, operating a warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, Postgres, DuckDB, or similar) under change control
Production RAG experience with vector stores (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector), hybrid search, re-ranking, and chunking strategies that actually work for enterprise documents
Evals and data-test discipline. You don't ship without them. Automated eval suites (golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, regression tests) and dbt-style data tests treated as production code, not notebooks
Production engineering hygiene: maintainable Python or TypeScript, tests, types, CI, deployment, cloud fluency (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Docker, basic IaC
Cost and latency awareness. You read token cost and warehouse cost like an SRE reads CPU. You know when to cache, when to fine-tune, when to switch models or pre-aggregate data
Native-level Portuguese plus clear business English.
Nice-to-haves
Experience integrating AI or agent systems with HubSpot, Salesforce, or comparable enterprise CRM platforms
Prior experience as the senior engineering anchor on a distributed team across multiple time zones
Public open-source contributions or shipped commercial AI products
Experience building or contributing to an internal agent framework or LLM tooling layer
Your Team
You'll join the AI Team within our Development & Technology Practice as the Lisbon anchor. You'll report to the Director Development & Technology, with day-to-day collaboration with Senior Engineers across the Practice. You'll partner closely with the Tech Consulting team on solution architecture, the Development team on integration work, and the Consulting Practice (Advisory) on AI proposal scoping.
Tech Stack
AI & Agentic: Claude (primary), GPT, Gemini, tool-calling and function-calling APIs, internal agent framework
RAG & Knowledge: Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, hybrid search, re-ranking
Languages: Python (primary), TypeScript
Data Engineering: dbt, BigQuery / Snowflake / Postgres / DuckDB, source-freshness checks, dbt tests
Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, or Azure, Docker, basic IaC, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
Internal Tooling: Jira, Confluence, Forecast, Claude AI, Claude Code, Cursor
What We Offer
Statutory: Standard Portuguese employment benefits via local entity or EOR (paid time off, public holidays, parental leave, statutory health coverage)
Health: Private health insurance top-up
Learning: Full Blinkist Business library (4,500+ books), 3 months of Babbel, HubSpot certifications fully funded, dedicated AI conference budget
Flexibility: Up to 4 weeks per year working from anywhere in the EU with a €500 allowance, hybrid setup with Lisbon hub access
Culture & Tools: Flat hierarchies with direct access to CEO and Leadership, modern stack (HubSpot, Jira, Confluence, Claude AI)
About Thorit
Thorit is one of Europe's leading HubSpot partners and a top business and technology consultancy. We combine strategic advisory with hands-on IT implementation, from CRM architecture to fully automated go-to-market infrastructure powered by AI and agentic systems.
Ready to Apply?
Send your application via Ashby. A cover letter is optional, but a concrete example of the most complex agent system you've personally shipped to production (architecture, tooling, evals, rollout, what broke and how you fixed it) is required.