LLM Ops Lead
Software Engineering, Operations, Data Science
Porto, Portugal
Posted on Aug 14, 2026
Build your future with Sovos.
At Sovos, we're transforming tax compliance through innovative technology and AI-powered solutions used by customers worldwide. We're looking for an LLM Ops Lead with 2-3 years of experience to help scale, govern, and operationalize Generative AI across the business while ensuring quality, safety, observability, and continuous improvement.
What You'll Do
- Own AI quality standards, evaluation frameworks, and release gates across Ask Sovi products
- Lead prompt and model versioning, regression detection, and AI governance initiatives
- Coordinate Safety, Guardrails, and Red Team testing programs
- Build observability practices across latency, cost, quality, and safety metrics using tools such as Langfuse
- Manage Jira epics, ticket triage, and cross-functional coordination across Product and Engineering teams
- Develop LLMOps playbooks, best practices, and operational standards
- Lead AI incident response, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis
What We're Looking For
- 2-3 years of experience in Applied AI, LLMOps, AI Quality Engineering, AI Operations, Test Automation, or related fields
- Hands-on experience with Langfuse, LangSmith, or similar AI observability and evaluation tools
- Strong understanding of AI quality, evaluation pipelines, prompt versioning, and AI governance
- Experience with AI safety, guardrails, content moderation, audit logging, and release management
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to support teams operating across UK business hours
Ideal Candidate Backgrounds
- Applied AI Engineers from AI-native or AI-first organizations with hands-on Langfuse/LangSmith experience
- Product-minded Engineers who combine strong technical skills with customer and business impact awareness
- QA/Test Automation Engineers who have transitioned into AI evaluation, quality, or LLM testing
- AI Quality Analysts with expertise in hallucination detection, model drift monitoring, LLM-as-a-Judge methodologies, and AI quality governance
Why Join Sovos?
- Work on cutting-edge Generative AI products and platforms
- Collaborate with global AI, Product, and Engineering leaders
- Bi-Weekly Meeting Free Days
- Mentoring and career development programs
- Globally recognized training opportunities
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
- Flexible and collaborative work environment
Recruitment Process
CCAT & EPP Assessment → Automated Video Interview → Hiring Manager Interview → Final Interview
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