Lead AI Engineer

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• There are NO limits to your career : come shape the future and be part of a truly unique global culture at OutSystems!
• Bay Area location required!
• Role Scope
• Lead individual contributor responsible for owning complex AI agent platform components, delivering scalable and secure AI-powered low-code solutions, and mentoring other engineers. Operates with high autonomy, influences technical direction within the team, and ensures production-ready quality in AI-driven features.
• What You Will Lead / Do or Key Responsibilities
• Design, implement, and maintain AI-powered low-code platform capabilities enabling customers to build and deploy AI agents at scale.
• Architect and optimize agent orchestration pipelines, integrating with AWS services, Kubernetes, and C#-based microservices.
• Develop solutions leveraging LLMs, AI agent frameworks, and autonomous agent patterns (e.g., task planning, tool use, memory).
• Implement and maintain secure, high-performance APIs for agent execution, communication, and interoperability.
• Build reusable, configurable components to accelerate customer-built AI agents through the low-code platform.
• Availability to participate in an on-call rotation
• Ensure high availability, low latency, and observability across AI agent services.
• Integrate AI agent workloads with AWS data services, messaging systems (Kafka / NATS), and event-driven architectures.
• Apply continuous delivery and automated testing practices for AI-related components.
• Act as a technical mentor, driving AI engineering best practices, knowledge sharing, and innovation across teams.
• Serve as last-line incident responder for complex AI platform issues, participating in the on-call rotation.
• Qualifications / What You Need To Succeed
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI / ML, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years in software development, with 2+ years in AI / ML engineering or AI agent systems.
• Strong C# (.NET Core) skills; proficiency in Python or Java is a plus.
• Expertise in AWS cloud services (e.g., Lambda, ECS / EKS, S3, DynamoDB, Bedrock, SageMaker).
• Proficient with Kubernetes for deployment, scaling, and orchestration of AI workloads.
• Hands-on experience with AI agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen) and agent communication standards (MCP, A2A).
• Knowledge of LLM prompt engineering, context management, vector search, and embedding pipelines.
• Mastery of continuous delivery and automated testing techniques, including AI model validation strategies.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills for diagnosing complex, distributed system issues.
• Proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional, agile environments.
• A passion for emerging AI technologies, staying ahead of trends, and driving their adoption.
• Ability to balance innovation with reliability, ensuring customer-facing AI features are both cutting-edge and production-ready.
• The Longer Story :
• OutSystems enables enterprise teams to build AI-powered applications and agents that reduce manual work, streamline internal operations, and accelerate impact. A proven low-code foundation combined with agentic AI and AI app generation capabilities empowers teams to move up to 10x faster with the assurance of security, scalability, and governance built in.As the future becomes agentic, our customers need us now more than ever. AI has opened the door to extraordinary possibilities—but inside the enterprise, things are moving fast and feeling chaotic. Some early adopters are making progress in production, but for many, AI tools are sprawling without governance, data isn’t ready, and talent isn’t there yet. Enterprises are still drowning in application backlogs and struggling with legacy systems. But with the right platform, AI doesn’t have to add to the chaos. It can become the breakthrough that brings clarity—and drives real, enterprise-wide impact. At OutSystems, we’ve built that platform, providing the tools necessary for enterprises to overcome these hurdles.We are looking for passionate, talented, and motivated people to join us in helping our customers build, deploy, and scale apps and agents—fast, helping them accelerate innovation while enabling secure, governed human-AI collaboration.OutSystems is a truly global company, with more than 850,000 developer community members, 1,700 employees, more than 500 partners, and thousands of active customers in over 75 countries and across 21 industries. Founded in 2001, OutSystems has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, the UAE, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, India, and Singapore, and of course has a thriving, worldwide community of remote employees.Amongst our customers are some of the world's most recognizable brands across diverse industries—brands like Toyota, Heineken, Bosch, KeyBank, and UCLA. These customers are the reason we have a 4.6 star rating on G2. Their success is ours, and their stories demonstrate tangible ROI and transformational impact. We are a 9x Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Low-Code Application Platforms and a multi-year leader in the Forrester Wave. We’re recognized not just as leaders but as visionaries with a strong ability to execute, now extending our leadership into the AI and agentic application development arena.
• Working at OutSystems
• Our goal is to ensure that OutSystems is a place for bright, happy, and motivated people who share a common purpose and take pride in doing excellent work to pursue our vision of providing the AI-powered low-code development platform enterprise leaders trust to build, secure, and evolve their business applications, agents, and core systems. Our culture is focused on our core values of trust, customer success, innovation, and alignment. Our team members operate with transparency, integrity, and accountability, define success through the lens of the outcomes we deliver for our customers, push the boundaries with excellence, and work together toward our shared vision to deliver on what matters most.
• A company that is always growing, changing, and innovating. We challenge each other to innovate in our products, in our team, and how we use our own technology. And we give our teams space to be proactive and creative.
• Real career opportunities. We care about growth and development. Yes, vertical career progression is a possibility, but it's not the only one. From lateral moves and joining different teams to mastering specialized skills, we support your growth no matter what your goals are.
• Work colleagues that are as smart, hard-working, and driven as you. We act as one global OutSystems team, taking ownership and working together toward a shared vision.
• Disrupting the status quo is in our DNA. In fact, it’s why our company exists.
• We ask “why” a lot. It helps us connect our individual work to the bigger picture and sometimes even uncover a better way.OutSystems nurtures an inclusive culture of diversity, where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic self and perform at their best. A company that embraces the creativity and innovation that comes through diverse perspectives. We are committed to creating a team that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive equal consideration regardless of race, place of origin, color, age, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by law.We provide the AI-powered low-code development platform that enterprise leaders around the world

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