Principal Applied AI Engineer

What makes us Qlik? A Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for 15 years in a row, Qlik transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights, driving strategic business outcomes. Serving over 40,000 global customers, our portfolio leverages pervasive data quality and advanced AI/ML capabilities that lead to better decisions, faster. We excel in integration and governance solutions that work with diverse data sources, and our real-time analytics uncover hidden patterns, empowering teams to address complex challenges and seize new opportunities. The Principal Applied AI Engineer Role We are seeking a creative trailblazer to join us as a Principal Applied AI Engineer in our office in São Paulo. This is a high-visibility role reporting to our Director of Enterprise AI Acceleration, designed for a builder who thrives in a small, agile group focused on rapid innovation. As "Customer Zero," you will lead our internal AI revolution. You won't just be selecting models you'll be building production agentic systems that drive real business outcomes. You'll be the ultimate power user of Qlik's 2026 AI suite (Qlik Answers, Qlik Talend Cloud, Qlik Cloud Analytics) while also building POCs with industry-leading tools to prove concepts fast. Your mission: move AI from experimentation to the boardroom, creating intelligent systems that impact Qlik's P&L while shaping our global product roadmap. What makes this role interesting? This is a role designed for engineers who want to build the future of enterprise AI, not just talk about it. You will work on the cutting edge of agentic systems, knowledge graphs, and retrieval architectures, solving complex problems that directly influence both internal operations and product innovation. Build production AI systems, not experiments: Design and deploy real agentic AI solutions that support enterprise workflows and decision-making across the organization. Operate as “Customer Zero” for Qlik AI products: Use Qlik's emerging AI technologies in real production scenarios, helping validate capabilities while identifying opportunities to strengthen the platform. Prototype rapidly with best-in-class tools: Develop proof-of-concepts using frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy, or similar, while helping transition successful solutions into Qlik-native technologies as they evolve. Work in a high-autonomy innovation environment: Join a small, agile engineering group focused on rapid experimentation and practical impact, where ideas move quickly from concept to deployment. Collaborate globally across AI, data, and product teams: Work alongside business leaders, data scientists, and engineering teams across time zones to turn AI opportunities into operational systems. Shape the future of AI products used worldwide: Your experiments and technical insights directly influence Qlik's global AI roadmap. Here's how you'll be making an impact: Architecting Intelligence: Build advanced GraphRAG and Knowledge Graph systems that provide the reasoning layer for autonomous agents—enabling multi-hop queries across enterprise data. "Drinking Our Own Champagne": Stress-test Qlik's emerging AI products by building real workloads, surfacing gaps, and feeding technical insights directly to R&D that shape future releases. Optimizing Retrieval: Select and deploy embedding models, re-rankers, and hybrid search strategies that maximize retrieval accuracy and relevance for enterprise use cases. Mentoring the Next Generation: Guide two mid-level Data Scientists on applied AI patterns, helping them deliver ML models and data pipelines that feed context-aware data into agentic systems. Building Agentic Systems: Work with business leaders and builders to design and deploy production AI agents using best-in-class frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy, or similar), transitioning to Qlik-native capabilities as our products mature. We're looking for a teammate with: Required: Applied AI Expertise: 8+ years delivering AI/ML solutions, with hands-on experience building RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, or production retrieval systems. Knowledge Graph Fluency: Proven experience with graph technologies (Neo4j, RDF, or similar) and GraphRAG patterns for context-rich reasoning. Retrieval System Mastery: Deep understanding of embeddings, vector databases, re-ranking, and hybrid search—you know how to get the right data to the right agent at the right time. A Builder's Mentality: You thrive in "build from scratch" environments, love proving concepts fast, and are comfortable knowing some of your best work may be migrated or rebuilt as products evolve. Language: Expert-level English (Native or Professional) for global collaboration across time zones. Bonus points if you have: Experience with Qlik products (Qlik Sense, Qlik Answers, Talend) Familiarity with AI observability frameworks (Ragas, LangSmith, Weights & Biases) Why join Qlik in Vila Olímpia? Elite Tech Corridor: Work in the heart of São Paulo's premier tech hub, surrounded by global giants and innovation leaders. The location for this role is: Office Location, São Paulo, Brazil Hybrid: #LI-Hybrid Apply now and help change how the world transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights and turns complex data challenges into new opportunities! More about Qlik and who we are: Find out more about ‘Life at Qlik' on social: Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and X/Twitter, and to see all other opportunities to join us and our values, check out our Careers Page. What else do we offer? Genuine career progression pathways and mentoring programs. Culture of innovation, technology, collaboration, and openness. Flexible, diverse, and international work environment. Giving back is a huge part of our culture. Alongside an extra “change the world” day plus another for personal development, we also highly encourage participation in our Corporate Responsibility Employee Programs If you need assistance applying for a role due to a disability, please submit your request via email to accessibilityta@qlik.com. Any information you provide will be treated according to Qlik's Recruitment Privacy Notice. Qlik may only respond to emails related to accommodation requests. Qlik is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Qlik via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Qlik. 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