AI Engineer (f/m/d)

About the company

We believe in the positive power of energy – and in people who are ready to shape the future with their ideas and dedication. That’s why we established the EnBW Tech Hub in Portugal to drive innovation and develop digital solutions that support the energy transition and improve the way we work.

As a key pillar of EnBW’s technological transformation, the Tech Hub plays a vital role in our journey. EnBW is one of the largest energy companies, headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, employing approximately 30,000 people. ENBW IT SOLUTIONS, UNIPESSOAL LDA, a wholly owned subsidiary of EnBW, operates as an integral part of EnBW's IT division. In Lisbon, we bring together experts in IT, administration, project management and HR to collaborate in an agile, international environment and create smart, scalable solutions.

Our benefits

• Private supplementary health insurance including coverage for your immediate family, offering peace of mind beyond the public system.
• Meal allowance to support your daily work routines.
• Additional paid days off (24 December & Carnival Day) on top of statutory annual leave - giving you more time for what matters.
• Hybrid working model with a mix of remote and office days to support flexibility and modern ways of working.
• Intercultural collaboration & cross border projects - grow your international experience by working with colleagues in Germany.
• Modern technology and continuous development opportunities to support your growth and keep you up to date in your field.
• Bright, appealing offices in a trendy Lisbon area, designed for productive and enjoyable workdays.

Your tasks

• Engage directly with business units to identify automation opportunities and shape high-value agentic and GenAI use cases
• Rapidly prototype solutions using platform building blocks and agentic coding tools, then harden them into production-grade applications
• Deliver use cases end-to-end — from discovery and scoping through development, deployment, and ongoing further devops
• Feed insights from use case delivery back into the platform team, driving development of reusable components
• Present progress, results, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership and cross-functional steering groups

Your profile

Experience at the intersection of technology and business — forward deployment, solutions engineering, technical consulting, or applied AI - Proven track record of shipping GenAI or agentic solutions into production and supporting them through their lifecycle - Strong developer, comfortable working across the stack when needed - Hands-on experience with LLM application patterns — RAG, agents, tool use, multi-step reasoning — with judgment to select the right approach - Extensive personal practice of using agentic coding tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) in real delivery work — with established workflows you can articulate and teach to others - Excellent communicator who translates between technical teams and business stakeholders, and presents confidently to senior leadership - Brings structure to ambiguous situations — scopes, prioritizes, and delivers without waiting for perfect requirements

Nice-to-haves: - Familiarity with Azure cloud services and infrastructure pipelines for self-sufficient deployment - Experience running workshops, design sprints, or hackathons for use case discovery - Track record of establishing agentic tooling practices or AI-augmented delivery workflows within a team - Background in the energy sector, utilities, or other regulated industries - Experience with change management or technology adoption in enterprise settings

Language skills: - English: Fluent (required — daily working language) - German: Nice-to-have (not required)

About the department

You will join our Agentic Factory team, which sits at the heart of EnBW's generative AI and data delivery. We build and operate the central AI platform and GenAI use cases that drive real impact across the organization — from intelligent automation to AI-powered decision support in the energy sector. Our team in Lisbon works as an integral part of cross-functional squads in Germany, combining deep technical expertise with the agility to move fast in a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We value curiosity, ownership, and a hands-on engineering culture where agentic tools and AI-augmented ways of working are not just what we build — they are how we work every day.

Contact

Are you interested? Apply online now! A cover letter is not required; we may ask a few job-specific questions in our application form.

In addition to EnBW, our recruiting team also recruits for other Group companies. If you have any questions, please contact Fahrion, Annika | a.fahrion@netze-bw.de.

Everyone is embraced here, irrespective of gender, age, sexual orientation, heritage, faith, beliefs, or physical ability.

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