Staff AI Engineer - AI Labs

Dlocal · Madridsenior

In short

▸Ingeniero de IA de alto impacto en un laboratorio de vanguardia que prueba y valida tecnologías emergentes.
▸Día a día: prototipos, pruebas instrumentadas, evaluación de modelos y recomendaciones técnicas para adopción a gran escala.
▸Lo más destacado: influencia técnica directa sin gestión de personas, impulsando la adopción de IA en un ecosistema financiero global.

Fluent English required for collaboration across global teams.

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What they ask for

✓Experiencia demostrable en prototipos de IA y pruebas instrumentadas.
✓Capacidad para evaluar y recomendar tecnologías emergentes de IA con enfoque en aplicaciones prácticas.
✓Habilidades sólidas de comunicación para influir en equipos técnicos y no técnicos (legal, negocio, IT).
✓Experiencia previa en entornos de laboratorio o innovación tecnológica.
✓Conocimiento profundo de modelos de IA y herramientas emergentes (LLMs, agentes, etc.).
✓Capacidad para definir patrones y pautas técnicas para la adopción responsable de IA.

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Why Join dLocal?dLocal is the financial infrastructure powering global commerce in the world's fastest-growing markets. The biggest companies in the world trust us to unlock growth in 60+ countries across emerging markets—moving money where others see complexity. We don't just process payments; we are architects of payment ecosystems and partners in our customers' expansion. You'll work alongside 1,300+ teammates from 40+ nationalities and tackle global challenges from day one. What's the Opportunity? You will join the AI Lab, a team whose mission is to validate high-value emerging AI and automation technologies and de-risk their adoption across dLocal. This is a rare opportunity to work at the frontier of applied AI in fintech: running rigorous experiments on the latest models and tools, and turning results into decisions that shape how a global payments company adopts AI. This is a senior individual-contributor role. It does not require direct people management, but it carries significant technical influence within the Lab and across the teams that consume its work. As a Staff AI Engineer in the AI Lab, you own technology scouting, prototyping, and evaluation for dLocal. You will run instrumented spikes and benchmarking on emerging AI technologies, produce clear recommendations for stakeholders across engineering, business, legal and IT based on your prototypes, and coordinate hand-offs to the teams that take validated technologies into production. For promising technologies, you will help define the patterns, guardrails, and technical requirements needed for adoption and coordinate the hand-off to the engineering teams responsible for productionizing them.

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