Senior AI Engineer, dLocal
Cloud Platform
Emerging markets payments platform
Open for applications
Emerging markets payments platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable global merchants to connect seamlessly with billions of emerging market users.
Role
Who you are
- Solid understanding of the full Software Development Lifecycle (planning, coding, testing, releasing, monitoring)
- Experience with CI/CD systems and infrastructure automation (Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible)
- Proficiency in Python and scripting (e.g., Bash, Go); ability to work across AI, infrastructure, and tooling codebases
- Experience working in cloud environments (AWS/GCP) and with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Practical experience with LLMs and code-generation tools (e.g., Codex, StarCoder, Claude, GPT family)
- Ability to prototype, benchmark, and deploy AI solutions that improve developer workflows
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or RAG pipelines is a plus
- Research-driven and curious: you’re always testing new ideas, tools, and approaches
- Capable of explaining complex AI solutions to cross-functional teams
- Strong problem-solving skills: you identify inefficiencies and use AI to unlock new delivery velocity
Desirable
- Published work or open-source contributions in AI applied to software engineering
- Experience building or contributing to internal developer platforms (IDP)
- Experience applying AI to improve software quality, deployment safety, or observability
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Research-Driven AI Engineer to join our Platform Team at dLocal! In this role, you will pioneer AI solutions to transform how we build and ship software—boosting developer productivity, accelerating delivery cycles, and scaling our platform capabilities.
- You’ll work at the intersection of research and engineering, embedding AI into the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) to help our teams ship faster, more reliably, and with greater autonomy
- Build AI-powered tools to enhance each stage of the SDLC: from code generation and code reviews to testing, documentation, and deployment
- Develop internal assistants and copilots to reduce cognitive load and empower developers to move faster with fewer manual steps
- Automate repetitive development and operational tasks (e.g., writing IaC, generating release notes, updating documentation)
- Investigate GenAI solutions (e.g., GitHub Copilot, CodeLlama, GPT-Engineer) to improve CI/CD workflows and eliminate friction in delivery pipelines
- Design, benchmark, and deploy AI-driven solutions that reduce lead time, increase deployment frequency, and enhance reliability
- Explore custom model fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches when needed
- Prototype features like AI-driven deployment optimizations, cost-aware autoscaling, or predictive incident resolution
- Embed AI into DevOps processes to identify bottlenecks, automate root cause analysis, and surface continuous delivery insights
- Collaborate with SRE and developer experience teams to evolve our Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with intelligent automation
- Partner with engineering, DevOps, and product teams to identify key pain points and deliver impactful AI interventions
- Share findings through workshops, whitepapers, and internal demos to scale learnings across the organization
Application process
- 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!
Our take
It is clearly evident that there is a massive payments gap between developed countries and emerging economies, with consumers in many countries having little or no access to modern payment options. dLocal was established in Uruguay to address this gap, which it aims to close not only for its neighbouring countries but across the globe.
Through its unique "One dLocal" concept (one direct API, one platform, and one contract), global companies can accept payments, send pay-outs and settle funds globally without separately managing pay-in and pay-out processors. The company also supplies a defense suite and local issuing for virtual and physical pre-paid cards in Latin America, as well as tools for building payments infrastructure for platforms and marketplaces.
Since founding, the company has expanded across Uruguay, the USA, Israel, Brazil and Europe. The company has seen significant growth while remaining confident and committed to its original mission. A notable achievement is dLocal becoming a certified Payment Initiation Service Provider in Brazil, which means it can eliminate unnecessary steps for users in the region.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2021
$150m
LATE VC
Sep 2020
$200m
SERIES A
Total funding: $357m
Company HQ
Tres Cruces, Montevideo, Montevideo Department
Leadership
Sergio Fogel
(Co-Founder & CSO)Co-founded multiple companies, such as AstroPay, and is an Official Member of the Forbes Finance Council.
Pedro Arnt
(CEO)Member of the Board of Directors at Allegro who advises at several firms. Previously EVP and CFO at MercadoLibre.com.
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