AI Engineer (all genders)

Lissabon, Remote

Full-time

Permanent employee

Who we are

SECJUR is a German compliance software company building the future of regulatory technology. Our Digital Compliance Office (DCO) platform helps organizations manage compliance across frameworks including ISO 27001, ISO 9001, GDPR, and NIS2.

We're building AI-powered compliance automation to transform how businesses handle regulatory requirements. Our customers range from startups to established enterprises across Europe.

Why Portugal? We're strategically expanding our engineering presence in Portugal to build a strong local team. This isn't just an outsourcing decision - we're committed to building long-term careers and a vibrant engineering culture in Portugal. You'll be joining at a pivotal moment where you can help shape our Portuguese engineering team from the ground up.

Our Tech Philosophy: We believe in pragmatic innovation - using modern technologies to solve real problems, shipping iteratively, and learning from production. We embrace AI tools in our daily work and expect our engineers to do the same.

Your creative field

We’re early in our AI journey. Beyond a well-customized ChatGPT integration, our AI features are not yet productionized. You will take MVPs → reliable, secure, cost-aware services on Azure, owning the path from design and evals to deployment and monitoring.

As our first dedicated full-time AI Engineer, your mission is to own the end-to-end lifecycle of our generative AI features, taking them from MVPs to robust, production-grade services. Reporting to the IT Lead, you will be the hands-on expert responsible for building and scaling our AI capabilities. You will implement features like document summarization and Q&A chat, build MLOps on Azure, and establish the best practices that will become the foundation for our future AI team.

This is a senior Individual Contributor role: hands-on delivery first, with influence on architecture and future hiring.

Your profile

5+ years in MLOps/Data (SaaS/cloud) with shipped production systems.
You have 2+ years of specific experience with Generative AI (LLMs, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, etc.).
Proven RAG delivery with production-grade evals (automatic + targeted human review), observability (traces, prompt/response logging with PII-safe redaction), and safeguards (prompt-injection/jailbreak mitigations).
Python + Docker; MLflow; Azure (Azure OpenAI or compatible), vector index (Azure AI Search/pgvector/Elastic), and async orchestration.
High ownership; challenges assumptions with data.
You are a strong communicator, fluent in English, and thrive in a remote-first, cross-functional environment.
Experience with Databricks, Ray, or Kedro is a strong plus.

Please note: You must be eligible to work in Portugal (i.e., be an EU citizen or hold a valid Portuguese work permit).

We know that you may not currently meet all the requirements. But if you come to us with the right amount of commitment and enthusiasm, we can take off together and make a big difference.

Your benefits with us

At SECJUR, we are constantly striving for further development. Our growth requires flexibility - and this is exactly what we live by. Everyone has the opportunity to play an active role in shaping the future of SECJUR. With flat hierarchies, freedom for individual work and time management, a culture of direct communication and open feedback, we create an environment in which everyone can develop their full potential and leave a lasting impression through creative input.

Additionally, we offer the following benefits:

A stable, agile, and non-bureaucratic environment where you can focus on building impactful AI features.
A remote-first culture with flexible working hours designed for your best individual performance.
An exciting environment with many opportunities for personal and professional development.
Significant creative freedom for your ideas and initiatives.
A permanent, full-time employment contract.
Unlimited vacation days to ensure you stay energized and refreshed.
Company events to celebrate our collective successes.

Further information on the recruiting process and how to contact us

We know that application processes can often be time-consuming - that's why we do everything we can to complete the three-stage process within three weeks:

1. Technical interview with our Development department
2. Second exchange with our Head of Product and Product Manager to become a full picture of SECJUR and the position.

About us

You can find more information on our career page.