Senior AI Ops Engineer

DLocal

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Barcelona - Spain

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 11 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Why should you join dLocal
dLocal enables the biggest companies in the world to collect payments in 40 countries in emerging markets. Global brands rely on us to increase conversion rates and simplify payment expansion effortlessly. As both a payments processor and a merchant of record where we operate we make it possible for our merchants to make inroads into the worlds fastest-growing emerging markets.
By joining us you will be a part of an amazing global team that makes it all happen. Being a part of dLocal means working with 1000 teammates from 30 different nationalities and developing an international career that impacts millions of peoples daily lives. We are builders we never run from a challenge we are customer-centric and if this sounds like you we know you will thrive in our team.

Whats the Opportunity


The AI Ops Engineer is a highly technical role responsible for the reliability scalability and continuous improvement of dLocals AI ecosystem across the entire organization. As AI adoption expands company-wide we need a hands-on expert who can operate maintain evaluate and evolve our AI systems in productionensuring consistent quality robustness security and measurable business impact for teams across dLocal.


In this role you will act as both an enabler and a technical authority. You will work alongside Engineering and cross-functional teams to ensure our AI systemsbuilt both in-house and leveraging best-in-class third-party toolsoperate at the highest standards of performance and efficiency. You will maintain and customize AI-powered information systems including prompt libraries skills frameworks orchestration layers integrations evaluation pipelines and observability tooling.


This position requires strong analytical capabilities deep systems thinking and the ability to rigorously compare models architectures and tools to consistently achieve the best possible outcomes

What Will I Be Doing

  • Operate & Maintain AI Systems: Ensure reliability scalability and observability of AI-powered services deployed on AWS including LLM-based systems and agentic workflows used across the organization.

  • Architect Agent Behavior: Design and version-control complex system prompts ensuring agents have clear personas robust guardrails and precise tool definitions.

  • Curate Knowledge Context: Manage the Golden Corpus for our agents and RAG systems optimizing data chunking and metadata strategies to ensure accurate information retrieval and proper execution context.

  • Architect & Optimize AI Workflows: Design and continuously improve prompt libraries skills repositories orchestration frameworks and automation pipelines that power internal AI tools.

  • Model Evaluation & Benchmarking: Evaluate and compare AI models (LLMs and foundation models) across quality latency cost safety and robustness.

  • Implement Automated Evals: Build Ground Truth datasets and design LLM-as-a-Judge pipelines to rigorously test agent performance before deployment.

  • Enablement & Best Practices: Provide reusable components documentation and operational standards that empower engineering teams and internal stakeholders to safely leverage AI capabilities.

  • Experimentation & Continuous Improvement: Drive structured experimentation cycles (A/B testing offline evals shadow testing) to iteratively improve system performance.

  • Governance & Guardrails: Implement versioning strategies access controls auditability and responsible AI guardrails aligned with a regulated fintech environment.

What Skills Do I Need

  • Technical Background: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).

  • 5 Years of Experience: Experience in ML Engineering Data Science AI Engineering Platform Engineering or related roles with proven responsibility for ensuring the reliability performance and operational excellence of AI and Machine Learning systems in production environments.

  • AI & LLM Expertise: Practical experience working with LLMs RAG architectures embeddings prompt engineering evaluation frameworks and inference trade-offs. Deep familiarity with LLM concepts such as tokenization temperature context windows and latent representations.

  • Operations & Observability: Experience with CI/CD for AI systems model versioning experiment tracking performance monitoring and incident response.

  • Analytical & Comparative Mindset: Strong ability to evaluate competing AI systems vendors and architectures using measurable performance indicators.

  • Data-Driven Mindset: Experience with AI observability and evaluation platforms (e.g. LangSmith Arize HoneyHive) to drive improvements through structured metrics rather than intuition.

  • Builder Mentality: Comfortable maintaining and customizing AI information systems including prompt repositories skills libraries orchestration tools no-code/low-code platforms (e.g. n8n Zapier Replit Glean) and system integrations.

  • Security & Compliance Awareness: Understanding of secure system design data privacy and operational controls within financial or regulated environments.

  • Collaborative Spirit: Proven ability to act as the connective layer between Engineering Product Data and business stakeholders.

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: we have flexible schedules and we are driven by performance.
- 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.
- Social budget: youll get a monthly budget to chill out with your team (in person or remotely) and deepen your connections!
- dLocal Houses: want to rent a house to spend one week anywhere in the world coworking with your team Weve got your back!
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 selfmanaged focus time with moments of inperson connection in our collaboration hubs.
What happens after you apply
Our Talent Acquisition team is invested in creating the best candidate experience possible so dont worry you will definitely hear from us. We will review your CV and keep you posted by email at every step of the process!
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

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Why should you join dLocaldLocal enables the biggest companies in the world to collect payments in 40 countries in emerging markets. Global brands rely on us to increase conversion rates and simplify payment expansion effortlessly. As both a payments processor and a merchant of record where we opera...
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