Checkmarx Portugal

Checkmarx is a leader in AppSec and the host of Checkmarx One™ — the industry-leading cloud-native AppSec platform that helps companies build #DevSecTrust.
About company

Senior ai engineer

On-site

location Braga

date October 18, 2026

types Full-time

Sobre a vaga

We're looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join one of our R&D teams building the AI-driven core of our product. The role involves building AI-driven features, applying judgment about the AI tooling landscape, and cloud-native architecture in Go. You will evaluate whether new tools or techniques are worth adopting and help the team decide what to build vs. buy vs. integrate.

O que vais fazer
  • Design, build, and own LLM-powered pipelines and agent-based systems that find, triage, and remediate security risk in production, at scale
  • Design retrieval and context strategies (RAG, tool use, memory) that ground model behavior in our product's data and domain
  • Define and run evaluations for model/agent quality and use them to drive iteration and model selection
  • Evaluate emerging AI tools, models, and frameworks against our product needs, producing clear build-vs-buy-vs-integrate recommendations for the team and leadership
  • Stay ahead of the AI landscape: new LLM releases, agent architectures, orchestration frameworks, and techniques and translate relevant developments into concrete engineering proposals
  • Own the reliability of AI features in production: guardrails, structured output validation, fallback behavior, and observability tuned for LLM-based systems
  • Participate in design discussions and code reviews, bringing an AI-informed perspective to architecture decisions
O que é pedido
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong hands-on experience building with LLMs and AI agents, not just experimenting with them
  • Experience designing RAG pipelines, retrieval strategies, or context/memory systems for LLM applications
  • Practical experience evaluating model and agent quality (accuracy, hallucination, latency, cost) and using evals to guide decisions
  • A demonstrated habit of evaluating and comparing AI tools, models, or vendors, with informed opinions on tradeoffs
  • Experience with cloud AI services (AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI)
  • Strong proficiency in Go and/or Python
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems (message queues, gRPC/REST APIs, relational databases) and experience with Docker/Kubernetes
  • Strong testing, CI/CD, and observability fundamentals
  • Excellent English communication skills
Valorizado
  • A genuine research habit, following AI research/practitioner communities
  • Experience with vector databases and embedding models
  • Application security knowledge
  • GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Helm), OpenTelemetry
O que é oferecido
  • great work environment
  • professional development
  • challenging careers
  • competitive compensation
  • great work-life balance
  • great benefits and perks throughout the year

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Benefícios e vantagens (8)

  • Apoio ao home-office
  • Comida, fruta e bebida
  • Flex benefits
  • Flexibilidade de horário
  • Jogos no escritório
  • Mais de 22 dias de férias
  • Prémios de performance
  • Seguro de saúde

Valores e cultura (7)

  • Códigos de alta qualidade
  • Feedback contínuo e 360º
  • Híbrido
  • Igualdade de género
  • Incentivo à criatividade & inovação
  • Pessoas portadoras deficiência / incapacidade permanente
  • Tecnologias de ponta
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