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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026

Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

Tekever Caldas da Rainha On-site senior full-time

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Description

As a Forward-Deployed AI Engineer, you will bring data engineering, data analytics, data science, and machine learning expertise directly into a UAV platform team.

You will work with flight logs, telemetry, video, and mission data; analyze them to answer engineering questions; build models where they add value; and package the results as internal tools, dashboards, and integrations with mission and ground control software.

Your responsibilities:

  • Analyze flight logs, telemetry, and mission data to answer engineering questions
  • Identify where machine learning adds value and build, evaluate, and iterate on models
  • Help make the team's data easy to collect, find, and trust
  • Design, build, and maintain internal tools, scripts, CLIs, small web apps, dashboards, and automations
  • Use AI-assisted development workflows to prototype quickly, validate with users, and harden what proves useful
  • Build a working knowledge of how software fits together and integrate with it
  • Be the platform team's point of contact for Data & AI
  • Support ground and flight tests, document analyses, tools, and data flows, and share AI-assisted ways of working with the team

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Aerospace, or Electrical Engineering
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience delivering data, analytics, or ML solutions end-to-end
  • Strong skills in exploratory data analysis, statistics, and visualization
  • Strong SQL and Python data stack
  • Hands-on experience training, evaluating, and iterating on ML models
  • Experience building internal tools end-to-end
  • Ability to read, understand, and integrate with existing systems
  • Comfortable with Git, Linux, Docker, and basic CI/CD
  • Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and agents
  • Interest in aviation, UAVs, or robotics
  • Fluent Portuguese and English

What we offer:

  • Competitive salary package
  • Meal allowance and health insurance for employees
  • Shuttle transport service to offices
  • Bonus in line with company policy
  • Access to Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

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