10 x Senior AI Engineers — Madrid (Finance)

Location:

Central Madrid

Work model:

5 days onsite

Salary:

£75,000 – £120,000 base + 10% bonus

Industry:

Financial Services / Trading / Banking Technology

Overview

A finance company in central Madrid is hiring a Senior AI Engineer to build and productionise AI systems across trading, risk, operations, and internal automation. The role is highly engineering-focused, with an emphasis on deploying reliable ML/LLM systems into regulated, high-performance environments.

This suits someone who enjoys hands-on backend engineering as much as applied AI work.

Responsibilities

Design and deploy production AI/ML systems for financial use cases

Build and maintain LLM applications, RAG pipelines, and AI agents

Develop scalable backend services and APIs for AI products

Work with structured and unstructured financial datasets

Optimise model inference, latency, and infrastructure costs

Collaborate with quants, traders, risk, and platform engineering teams

Implement monitoring, evaluation, and governance for AI systems

Contribute to MLOps and cloud infrastructure practices

Required Skills

Strong Python engineering experience

Production experience with LLMs and modern AI tooling

Experience with:

PyTorch or TensorFlow

FastAPI / backend API development

Vector databases and RAG architectures

Docker & Kubernetes





AWS, GCP, or Azure

Solid software engineering fundamentals

Experience deploying models into production environments

Strong SQL and data engineering exposure

Preferred

Experience in finance, trading, hedge funds, or banking

Knowledge of market data systems or quantitative workflows

Experience with:

LangChain / LlamaIndex

Airflow

Kafka

ML observability platforms

Familiarity with AI governance in regulated environments

Candidate Profile

Senior-level engineer who can operate independently

Comfortable in a fast-paced onsite environment

Pragmatic builder rather than research-only background

Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Package

£75k–£120k depending on experience 10% annual bonus

Relocation support potentially available

High-impact AI transformation projects

Central Madrid office location

Long-term progression into AI leadership or principal engineering

Example Tech Stack;

Python

PyTorch

FastAPI

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

AWS/GCP

OpenAI / open-source LLMs

Vector DBs (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector)

Candidates coming from:

AI startups

Quant/fintech firms

Big Tech applied AI teams

Platform engineering + ML hybrid roles

LLM infrastructure teams

📌 Artificial Intelligence Engineer - £75,000 - £120,000 A Year (Madrid)
🏢 Oliver Bernard
📍 Madrid