Adyen

Senior AI Research Engineer

Adyen
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23 hours ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior

Responsibilities

  • Drive execution of Adyen’s AI strategy through practical applications of Generative AI and other AI methodologies in finance.
  • Contribute to research initiatives involving AI agents for data analysis and operational workflows, human-in-the-loop integrity risk, and foundation models.
  • Implement cutting-edge AI research papers as robust, scalable, production-ready code.
  • Help define Adyen’s long-term AI vision, including safe and regulated interactions between AI, consumers, merchants, and financial institutions.
  • Mentor engineers, share best practices, pair with engineering teams, and provide hands-on technical support on proofs of concept and performance issues.
  • Engage with the broader AI community, including startups, venture capital firms, and AI labs, to identify advancements and partnership opportunities.

Requirements

  • Deep engagement with the scientific AI research community and strong knowledge of state-of-the-art AI advancements.
  • Significant experience and strong understanding of Generative AI and Large Language Models.
  • Strong engineering mindset with a record of writing clean, efficient, scalable production code.
  • Demonstrated experience converting cutting-edge AI research papers into production-quality implementations.
  • Ability to solve complex cross-team problems, influence strategic direction, and foster innovation.
  • Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to engineers, executives, and public audiences.
  • Strong collaboration skills, including empathy, influence, negotiation, relationship building, and conflict resolution.
  • Preferred: product sense and ability to identify impactful AI use cases.
  • Preferred: experience in AI-enabled fintech, classical machine learning, conferences and publications, or on-premise infrastructure.

Benefits

  • The role is based in Adyen’s Amsterdam office and follows an office-first model; remote-only work is not offered.
  • Employees work in small teams with direct communication, ownership, and access to large-scale payments and identity datasets.
  • The hiring process typically takes about four weeks, and applicants are generally contacted within five business days.

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AI ResearchML Engineering
Adyen

About Adyen

5,001-10,000 employees

Adyen builds a unified payments and financial technology platform for large merchants and platforms, offering card processing, POS, mobile, and global acquiring, plus risk and data tools. It sells payment processing and related services directly to businesses, earning fees per transaction. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Amsterdam, it is a public company listed on Euronext Amsterdam (AMS: ADYEN) with customers including Meta, Uber, and H&M.

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