Senior/ Lead - AI Research Engineer – Agents Team - MAD/BCN Full-time Aily Labs is a B2B SaaS company building an AI-powered decision intelligence app for enterprises. Our mobile-first platform combines company data with advanced machine learning, large language models and agentic AI to give business leaders clear, actionable insights in real time. Instead of traditional dashboards and reports, Aily delivers simple, personalized recommendations powered by GenAI that help teams decide and act faster across finance, supply chain, R&D;, commercial, and more.

The app is designed to be intuitive for end users and easy to integrate for IT, so companies can move from analysis and indecision to confident, data-driven decisions every day. Founded in 2020 in Munich, Aily Labs has grown into a general team of 350+ people across Munich, Barcelona, Madrid, Cluj, and New York. Our mission is to democratize AI in business and enable leaders toLead Boldly, turning complex data into decisions that drive real, measurable impact.

We are looking for exceptionally smart and driven AI Research Engineers to join a small, highly technical, and specialized research team at Aily. This team operates at the bleeding edge of AI, focusing on high-impact, moderately higher-risk projects that directly influence our end product. While your day-to-day work will heavily involve Language Models and Agentic AI, we expect you to be deeply versed in all of Machine Learning.

If an experiment yields novel, high-quality results, you will have the opportunity and support to publish your findings in top-tier AI conferences (e.g., Manage reproducible research pipelines, version code, and data, and select the right frameworks for prototyping.

Code Quality: Write clean, modular code (effective use of classes, functions, and documentation)



following strict software engineering best practices.

Autonomous Delivery: Deliver projects with a high degree of autonomy. End-to-End Ownership & Strategy: Deliver clean, extendable research pipelines end-to-end. Set and drive the overall research strategy based on expected business leverage, identifying domain-wide opportunities.

Bridge Research & Product: Translate experimental findings and research breakthroughs into clear, actionable, and deployable directions for the Data Science, MLE, and Product teams. Supervise and mentor team members, delegate tasks effectively, and drive the adoption of impactful research innovations across broader engineering teams.

External Presence: Act as a representative of Ailys research efforts, build university relationships, and spearhead efforts to publish papers at top conferences. A Masters degree (required) in a highly technical and quantitative field such as Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a rigorous double degree. The Foundations (All of ML): You have zero gaps in your machine learning fundamentals.

The Tech Stack & Tools: You have extensive, highly proficient experience with Python and SQL. you are highly capable of deploying solutions into production environments using tools like Docker and other containerization technologies. you proactively identify problems and rigorously test solutions. You keep up to date with the latest SOTA technology and research breakthroughs.

The Communicator: You can present complex research results clearly to both highly technical peers and non-technical business stakeholders. Applicants must already have the legal right to work in Spain Previous experience in academic or industrial AI research labs.

Contract type: Permanent.

Work policy: hybrid (2 days per week in the office)

📌 Senior/ Lead - AI Research Engineer - Agents Team - MAD/BCN (Barcelona)
🏢 Aily Labs
📍 Barcelona