Board of Innovation
Board of Innovation
Board of Innovation is a consulting and artificial intelligence company that helps organizations develop growth strategies and operating models for an AI-driven business environment. Its work combines innovation strategy, AI integration, and the design of AI-powered systems intended to improve how companies create value and operate. Through resources such as its AI Strategy Guide and advisory services, Board of Innovation supports leaders pursuing AI-native transformation across a range of industries. The company offers a collaborative environment for professionals interested in consulting, marketing, artificial intelligence, and practical business innovation.

Senior AI Tech Lead — Portugal (Remote)

Lead architecture and delivery for production-ready AI solutions serving enterprise clients at Board of Innovation. Guide engineers, align with client stakeholders, and take LLM-powered systems from initial scope through deployment.

Description

  • Own end-to-end technical delivery for complex enterprise AI projects
  • Define scope, solution direction, staffing, schedules, proposals, and estimates
  • Set architecture, record technical decisions, review implementation, and manage delivery risks and trade-offs
  • Develop prototypes, complex integrations, and critical fixes as project needs arise
  • Ship production systems such as agentic applications, LLM services, and their supporting platforms
  • Act as the client’s technical partner and make architectural decisions accessible to non-technical stakeholders
  • Coordinate enterprise approvals, platform dependencies, security assessments, and organizational limitations
  • Contribute to internal tools and reusable templates between client engagements
  • Coach engineers working on project teams
  • Report to the Engineering Director
  • Lead one flagship engagement on a near-full-time basis or manage two to three smaller projects concurrently, depending on the portfolio

Requirements

  • At least five years of engineering experience
  • Two or more years leading technical builds and the engineers delivering them
  • Track record of taking systems from design through production in an external organizational environment
  • Practical AI engineering experience with agents, tool use, retrieval, MCP, evaluations, and orchestration
  • Experience deploying LLM-based systems to production
  • Understanding of reliability, cost, and evaluation concerns in LLM applications
  • Strong Python skills with CI/CD, testing, disciplined code reviews, and infrastructure-as-code
  • Comfort using AI-assisted development tools, including Claude Code, Codex, and MCP-based workflows
  • Hands-on production cloud experience; Azure is preferred
  • Experience deploying software in restricted enterprise environments is advantageous
  • Ability to present architecture to VP-level stakeholders and lead client-facing technical conversations
  • Residence in Lisbon or elsewhere in Portugal
  • Submit a CV and a brief account of a technically led build, including what failed and what you would change

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