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(61 - 63) Information / Computing 62 - Computer programming, consultancy and related activities 62.1 - Computer programming activities 62.10 - Computer programming activities
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 July 2025
Employment effect (start)
29 July 2025
Foreseen end date
Description
Sword Health, a Portuguese medical technology start-up that developed a pioneering platform to predict, prevent and treat pain, is set to open a new facility in Lisbon.
The new space will host the country’s largest team dedicated to Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and will create over 100 new jobs to strengthen the Technology, Product, Operations and other departments.
The positions are available for remote or hybrid work.
Sword Health employs more than 1,000 people worldwide, with half of them based in Portugal.
Eurofound (2025), Sword Health Lisbon, Business expansion in Portugal, factsheet number 203147, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203147.
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