Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Portugal

The role

You will deploy ICEYE's intelligence platform into secure environments and build AI-powered workflows. You will turn raw satellite data into tools for defense and intelligence analysts.

What you will do

• Deploy ICEYE's intelligence platform into customer secure environments
• Build and maintain containerized applications and manage deployments in Kubernetes clusters
• Develop APIs and data pipelines connecting ICEYE systems to customer infrastructure
• Troubleshoot deployment issues in disconnected environments
• Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
• Develop AI agents and workflows using frameworks like LangChain or LangGraph
• Implement prompt engineering strategies and conversational AI interfaces
• Create Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations
• Build data fusion pipelines combining SAR imagery with additional intelligence sources
• Work embedded with intelligence analysts, data scientists, and military operators

Required qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on software engineering building and deploying production systems
• Strong Python programming skills
• Go, TypeScript, or Rust
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and RAG systems
• Working knowledge of agent frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, pydantic-ai) and vector databases
• Experience with Docker and deploying in secure / isolated / air-gapped environments
• Practical experience with APIs, data pipelines, and integrating systems in production
• Familiarity with Linux and basic Kubernetes operations
• Strong communication + customer engagement
• Strong spoken and written English
• Willingness to travel 40–60% to customer sites within the region

Nice to have

• Experience in defense, intelligence, or government operational environments
• Deploying to on-prem data centers and/or air-gapped networks
• Familiarity with geospatial data, satellite imagery, or remote sensing
• Experience with MCP integrations, multi-agent systems, or agentic workflows
• Deeper Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform/Ansible), and/or offline CI/CD
• Understanding of intelligence analysis workflows and defense/government requirements
• Experience with data fusion, multi-source intelligence integration, or GIS tools (ArcGIS, QGIS)
• Background in solution engineering, technical consulting, or customer success
• Experience in defense tech (e.g., Palantir, Anduril, Scale AI, similar startups)

Benefits

• Continuous professional development
• Training opportunities

Before you apply

• Must be eligible and able to attain relevant national and NATO security clearances
• Must be based in-country and native level speaker of the country you're deploying to

About the company

ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space. They own the world's largest and most advanced SAR satellite constellation.