Senior Software Engineer

Join The Ai Research & Solutions Group As a Senior Software Engineer in the AI Research & Solutions group, you will be a seasoned contributor building the core systems that power enterprise AI agents. You'll work hands-on developing agentic applicationsthe software that allows AI to reason, act, and integrate with complex enterprise environments. We're actively exploring Elixir/OTP as a foundation for our agent infrastructure, drawn to its strengths in concurrency, fault-tolerance, and distributed systems. You'll help shape our technical direction and drive key initiatives independently. This role is ideal for engineers who love building systems that think, connect, and abstract complexitywhether your background is in traditional software engineering, academic research, or a quantitative discipline where you learned to express complex ideas in clean code. Key Responsibilities 1. Agentic Application Development Build Agent Components: Design and implement production-grade components for AI agentstools, orchestration logic, memory systems, and integrations with enterprise data sources. You may work with Elixir/OTP (GenServers, Supervisors, Phoenix) as we evaluate it for our agent infrastructure. Quality & Reliability: Own the quality of your deliverables, writing robust, well-tested code that operates reliably in production environments. Performance Optimization: Profile and optimize agent behavior, API latencies, and resource consumption to meet enterprise-scale demands. 2. Integration & Systems Thinking Bridge Systems: Develop connective tissue between AI agent backends and the OutSystems low-code platform, ensuring seamless data flow and secure API contracts. Abstraction Design: Contribute to the design of software abstractions that enable agents to reason about and interact with complex legacy systems and modern architectures alike. Cross-Functional Delivery: Collaborate with researchers, product managers, and platform engineers to translate requirements into working solutions. 3. Mentorship & Technical Growth Mentor Junior Engineers: Support the growth of engineers through code reviews, pairing sessions, and knowledge sharing. Continuous Learning: Stay current with advances in agentic AI, LLM orchestration frameworks, and systems engineering practices. Documentation: Contribute to internal best practices, architecture decision records, and onboarding materials. Required Skills & Experience Technical Expertise (The Must-Haves) Software Engineering Foundation: 5+ years of experience building production software, with demonstrated ability to own and deliver complex features end-to-end. Python Proficiency: Strong hands-on experience with Python; ability to write clean, maintainable, and performant code. AI/ML Systems Exposure: Practical experience working with LLMs, AI agents, or ML systemswhether in industry, research, or open-source projects. API & Integration Skills: Experience designing and consuming REST/gRPC APIs; understanding of distributed systems patterns (queues, event-driven architectures, microservices). Cloud-Native Familiarity: Working knowledge of containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP). Strongly Preferred Elixir/OTP Experience: Hands-on experience with Elixir and OTP patternsGenServers, Supervisors, Applications, and Phoenix. We're evaluating Elixir for our agent infrastructure and would value someone who can help us make informed architectural decisions. Background Flexibility (We Value Diverse Paths) Academic Contributors Welcome: We value candidates from research backgroundswhether you completed a PhD, contributed to open-source projects during your studies, or built software to support your research in mathematics, physics, philosophy, or computational sciences. Abstraction Thinkers: If you've written code that models complex systemswhether that's physics simulations, formal logic systems, or distributed algorithmswe want to hear from you. Desirable Expertise (Nice-to-Have) Network Programming: Experience with low-level network code, forwarding plane implementations, packet processing, or socket programming. Functional Programming: Experience with functional languages (Elixir, Erlang, Haskell, OCaml, F#) and their approaches to concurrency and reliability. LLM Orchestration: Hands-on experience with LangChain, Semantic Kernel, or similar agent orchestration frameworks. OutSystems or Low-Code Platforms: Familiarity with OutSystems or similar platforms and their integration patterns. Who You Are Systems Thinker: You understand how software systems fit together and can reason about data flow, state management, and failure modes. Concurrency-Aware: You've thought deeply about building reliable, concurrent systemswhether through actor models, event-driven architectures, or other approaches. Independent Driver: You take ownership of problems and drive them to completion with minimal hand-holding. Collaborative Builder: You communicate clearly, give and receive feedback constructively, and enjoy working in a team that values both research and delivery. Curious & Adaptable: You're excited by new problems, comfortable with ambiguity, and eager to learn new domainsincluding new languages and paradigms. Why This Role? This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of AI research and enterprise software delivery. You won't just be maintaining existing systemsyou'll be building the next generation of agentic applications and helping shape our technical direction, including evaluating technologies like Elixir/OTP for building reliable, concurrent agent infrastructure. 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 possibilitiesbut 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 clarityand 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 agentsfast, 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 industriesbrands 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

Created: 2026-03-06