Why Join d Local? d Local 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 integral 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 d Local. 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 d Local. 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. What will I be doing? Technology Scouting & Evaluation Run short, instrumented spikes and benchmarking on new models, tools and frameworks: LLMs, agentic systems, vector databases, orchestration frameworks, copilots, assistants and more. Compare vendor and open-source options, documenting trade-offs across

📌 Staff Ai Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 dLocal
📍 Barcelona