Staff AI Engineer - AI Labs

Madrid💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-10 → 2026-09-26

Core

Validating high-value emerging AI and automation technologies and de-risking their adoption across dLocal's global payments infrastructure.

Role type

Staff individual-contributor AI engineer (technology scouting and evaluation)

Builds

Prototypes, instrumented spikes, and benchmarking results for emerging AI technologies

Domain

Fintech / Global Payments

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Technology scouting, prototyping, evaluation, running instrumented spikes, benchmarking, defining technical patterns and guardrails

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

None stated

Responsibilities

Run instrumented spikes and benchmarking on emerging AI technologies; produce clear recommendations for stakeholders based on prototypes; coordinate hand-offs to engineering teams for productionizing validated technologies; define patterns, guardrails, and technical requirements for adoption

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with significant technical influence

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About dLocal

dLocal enables the biggest companies in the world to collect payments in 40 countries in emerging markets. Global brands rely on us to increase conversion rates and simplify payment expansion effortlessly. As both a payments processor and a merchant of record where we operate, we make it possible for our merchants to make inroads into the world’s fastest-growing, emerging markets. By joining us you will be a part of an amazing global team that makes it all happen, in a flexible, remote-first dynamic culture with travel, health, and learning benefits, among others. Being a part of dLocal means