Senior Ai Research Engineer

**This is Adyen**

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for global customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft, making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. We create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by a culture that encourages ownership and provides the support to truly own your career. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team, delivering innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

**The Opportunity**

**What you'll do**:

- **Bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI research and production** by rapidly prototyping AI features and implementing research papers into robust, scalable, and production-ready code that delivers measurable business value.
- **Help shape the long-term vision for AI at Adyen**, specifically how AI will interact with humans and finance, including consumers, merchants, and financial institutions. This also includes understanding regulation and advocating for safe innovation in the field.
- **Drive innovation by challenging the status quo**, introducing transformative ideas, and leveraging technologies and methodologies to improve solutions that align with company strategy.
- **Carry out flexible, value-driven assignments**, proactively unblocking your team and adjacent teams, maximizing organizational impact and driving strategic initiatives.
- **Provide technical mentorship and sponsorship** to engineers across in your team and adjacent teams, fostering collaboration to share knowledge and best practices, and cultivating a culture of continuous improvement through deep engagement in problem-solving and hands-on guidance.
- **Stay connected with the broader AI industry** to stay informed of the latest advancements and identify potential partnership opportunities.
- **Champion engineering and scientific alignment**, advocate for high-quality standards, and drive the reduction of complexity and dependencies across teams.
- **Actively pair with engineers** to solve deep-rooted technical challenges and be fully capable of being hands-on with the code, whether creating proof-of-concepts or fixing critical performance issues.

**Who you are**:

- You have **5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, machine learning, or applied research**, with a proven ability to drive high-impact initiatives end-to-end.
- You are deeply plugged into the scientific AI research community and have a **strong understanding of the latest advancements in AI**, especially Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs).
- You possess a **proven ability to take cutting-edge AI research papers and implement them into production-quality, scalable code**.
- You demonstrate a **strong engineering mindset** with a track record of writing clean, efficient, and scalable code suitable for production environments.
- You excel at **translating complex technical concepts into clear, understandable terms** for diverse audiences, including engineers, executives, and during public events. You adapt your communication style to effectively engage with diverse audiences.
- You demonstrate the ability to **think critically and deliver simple and elegant solutions to complex, cross-team problems**, influencing team direction and fostering innovation.
- You excel in soft skills such as empathy, influence, negotiation, relationship building, and conflict resolution.

**Nice to haves**:

- Experience in AI-enabled fintech or infrastructure companies.
- Familiarity with classical machine learning or infrastructure concepts.
- Experience with external visibility activities such as conferences and publications.
- A strong product sense and the ability to identify impactful AI use cases.
- Experience working with on-premise infrastructure.

**What's next?**

This role is based out of our **Madrid** office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.