- Validate high-value emerging AI and automation technologies and de-risk their adoption across dLocal
- Own technology scouting, prototyping, and evaluation for dLocal
- Run instrumented spikes and benchmarks on LLMs, agentic systems, vector databases, orchestration frameworks, copilots, assistants, and other emerging technologies
- Compare vendor and open-source options across quality, cost, latency, security, and integration complexity
- Deliver decision memos with recommendations to adopt, watch, or avoid
- Design and maintain evaluation environments with datasets, prompts, scenarios, and telemetry
- Build automation and tooling to measure quality, robustness, latency, cost, and regressions
- Build focused prototypes to explore architecture, integration patterns, operational constraints, security boundaries, and failure modes
- Define readiness guidance, patterns, guardrails, limitations, operational considerations, and integration requirements
- Coordinate hand-offs to engineering teams responsible for productionization and support transitions as needed




- Track outcomes of Lab recommendations to improve evaluation methods
- Work with Security, Legal, Compliance, and AI teams on risk assessments and governance recommendations
- Maintain reusable checklists, decision templates, and standards
- Incorporate learnings from external copilots and the AWS AI suite into adoption guidelines
- Partner with AI and domain teams to ensure collaboration and clear boundaries
- Participate in hiring as a technical evaluator and culture champion
- Mentor engineers on evaluation methods, benchmarking, and experimental design
- Share knowledge through internal write-ups, tech talks, meetups, and conferences

Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience operating at senior or Staff-level scope
- Deep hands-on experience building and evaluating systems based on LLMs and modern AI tooling
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a

📌 Staff AI Engineer – AI Labs (Madrid)
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