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# Principal AI Engineer, Agentic Decision Systems Lead

- **Company:** AILY LABS
- **Location:** Madrid, Spain
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://eurojobs.com/jobs/26636227/apply

## About the Role

Someone who thrives at the intersection of business, analytics and AI and wants to ensure AI solves the right finance problems with measurable impact.
A scientist and builder: you explore multiple approaches, analyze results, and iterate fast, balancing cutting-edge techniques with simple, scalable solutions.
A strong communicator who adapts the message to different audiences and enjoys working cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
Someone with a startup mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, proactive, and hands-on when something needs fixing or improving.
Ready to Lead Boldly - helping business leaders make decisive decisions powered by real-time AI insights
Applicants must already have the legal right to work in Spain or Germany

## Description

We're building production LLM systems at enterprise scale - which means tackling hard problems in evaluation, reliability, and latency while staying at the research frontier. Our challenges include grounding agents in structured business data, coordinating multi-agent workflows, and ensuring robust performance in high-stakes decision contexts. We pair strong engineering with applied research, contributing to the field through publications and establishing technical differentiation in a fast-moving space.
Core Responsibilities (by Seniority) Senior/Lead AI Engineer - 4-6+ years of experience
All of the above +
Build and maintain features with strong ownership over quality and performance.
Own key features and projects, designing and improving models, pipelines and experimentation frameworks.
Communicate and align with stakeholders, identifying gaps and opportunities and turning business requirements into AI solutions.
Provide technical and people leadership: set modelling standards, mentor teammates, and lead cross-functionally delivery with PMs, engineers and customers to drive measurable business impact.
Principal AI Engineer - 7+ years of experience
All of the above +
Lead, design and maintain AI-driven solutions across multiple workstreams to solve complex business challenges.
Own delivery across several projects: shape the roadmap with PM/Eng, scope initiatives, manage dependencies and risks, and ensure timely, high-quality releases.
Communicate and align with senior internal and external stakeholders, identifying domain-wide opportunities and influencing strategy.
Provide leadership for the Data Science team: mentor and manage, define modelling and evaluation standards, and drive impactful cross-functional delivery.


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