Staff AI Engineer - AI Labs

**Why Join dLocal?
**dLocal 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 global 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 dLocal. 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 dLocal. 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 do we offer? Besides the tailored benefits we have for each country, dLocal will help you thrive and go that extra mile by offering you:
- Flexibility in how you work: We focus on impact and productivity over fixed hours. This means our teams have flexible schedules and, depending on your role and location, you will combine self‑managed focus time with moments of in‑person connection in our collaboration hubs.
- Fintech industry: work in a dynamic and ever-evolving environment, with plenty to build and boost your creativity.
- Referral bonus program: our internal talents are the best recruiters - refer someone ideal for a role and get rewarded.
- Work From Anywhere: Team members can work while traveling for up to 3 months every year.

What happens after you apply?

Our Talent Acquisition team is invested in creating the best candidate experience possible, so don’t worry, you will definitely hear from us. We will review your CV and keep you posted by email at every step of the process!

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