Staff Applied AI Engineer

Pleo • lisboa, lisboa • Posted July 10, 2026

About the Role

Pleo specialises in spend management solutions that simplify and empower finance teams. With 40,000+ customers and a decade of data, we’re building AI‑powered features to transform how businesses spend money.

Role Overview

Staff Applied AI Engineer – Shape AI‑powered product features from prototype to production, working alongside software, data engineers and data scientists.

Team & Reporting

You will be one of the first hires in the Data & AI Products team and report to the Principal Engineer. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Design, Engineering and Data & ML Platform teams.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship AI‑powered product features across agentic workflows, spend intelligence, automated actions and more.
  • Apply AI judgement on trade‑offs (quality vs latency/cost, build vs buy, agent patterns vs simpler approaches) and guide teams away from hype.
  • Work directly with Product, Design and stakeho...