Junior AI Engineer

Location: Madrid (Hubs Spain)

At ING Hubs Spain we are looking for a Junior AI Engineer

Your role and work environment.

We're looking for an enthusiastic AI Engineer with a passion for cybersecurity and emerging technologies. This role is ideal for someone who is highly motivated to specialize in the secure adoption of AI and Agentic AI at enterprise scale. You will be part of a team that shapes how ING securely designs, deploys, and governs AI solutions by developing security capabilities, best practices, and controls that enable responsible AI innovation across the bank.

AI Security & Safety Team

This position is part of the AI Security & Safety Team, a newly established team within Global CISO responsible for enabling the secure and responsible adoption of AI across ING. The team monitors emerging AI developments and risks, research industry best practices, validates security standards, and collaborates with policy bodies, regulators, industry forums, research institutions, and universities to stay at the forefront of AI security and safety developments. The team translates these insights into practical security standards, guidance, and capabilities that help ING securely design, deploy, and operate AI and Agentic AI solutions at scale.

CISO organization

The Chief Information Security Office (CISO) protects ING's information, technology, and digital services against cyber threats while enabling secure innovation across the bank. The organization brings together capabilities across Identity & Access Management (IAM), Security Detection & Response (SDR), Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), and Attack Surface Management (ASM) to strengthen ING's cyber resilience, manage security risks, and support the secure adoption of emerging technologies, including AI.

As Frontier AI capabilities continue to advance, ING is investing in dedicated expertise to understand their impact on cybersecurity, strengthen the bank's security posture, and ensure AI and Agentic AI solutions are designed, deployed, and operated securely at scale. The AI Security & Safety Team acts as the CISO's centre of expertise for AI security and safety.

How to Succeed as a member of AI Security & Safety team?

You combine a passion for software engineering skills with AI and cybersecurity. You stay current with advances in Frontier AI and are able to turn emerging technologies into practical, secure, and scalable solutions for ING.

You thrive in fast-moving environments, take ownership from idea to deployment, and actively contribute to building AI security capabilities, standards, and best practices across the organization. You can effectively bridge software engineering, AI innovation, and security, helping ING adopt AI and Agentic AI safely and responsibly at scale.

As an AI engineer, What to expect?

Develop AI-powered applications and proof of concepts using frontier AI models, commercial AI services, and open-weight models.

Evaluate, benchmark, and monitor AI systems to assess their capabilities, limitations, risks, and security implications.

Design and implement solutions leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Agentic AI patterns.

Build secure, scalable, and production-ready AI solutions aligned with security and governance requirements.

Share knowledge and insights to advance the organization's understanding of AI technologies, opportunities, and risks.

What do you bring?

Education & experience

Master’s degree or PhD in computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.

2+ year experience n AI Engineering, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Cyber Security, or a related discipline.

Core technical stack

Advanced Python, SQL, PyTorch/TensorFlow (SAS is an advantage)

Familiar with software engineering fundamentals, including testing, code quality, software architecture, and distributed systems design.

GenAI & data capabilities

Exposure to LLMs, generative AI or AI applications development

Familiar with HuggingFace (Transformers, PEFT), LangChain/LlamaIndex, Vector Stores (FAISS/Vertex Search), designing and optimising RAG pipelines.

Familiar with frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar.

Interest in emerging AI protocols and standards, including Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication, tool-calling, and multi-agent architectures.

Platforms & engineering

Familiar with cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP, AWS.

Experience with Azure DevOps (Git, Pipelines)

Familiar with end-to-end pipelines (data → model → deployment)

Way of working

Conformable working in Agile/Scrum teams

Strong willingness to learn and continuously develop your skills

Collaborative mindset and good communication skills

What do we offer?

The time you spend at work, the challenges you face or the lessons you get are very important, but… What about your personal life? At ING we want your work to fulfill you in every way, and that is why we take care of even the smallest details.

Check out what is waiting for you!

Be flexible my friend.

Our model is all about flexibility and accountability. Keeping both our customers and our colleagues needs in mind, you determine together which days you work at home and which you come to ING MAD to offer your best self. Do your thing.

Restaurant card.

So that thinking about what to have for lunch doesn’t take up your time or your cravings.

Our house will be your home.

In our offices you can find electric mobility solutions, doctor, hairdresser, gym, The Good Service (to help you with your errands) and much more!

Health insurance.

For you and all your family (spouse/partner and children).

Life insurance.

We help you protect what matters most to you.

Flexible remuneration.

In addition, you will enjoy our flexible remuneration model, through a more tax-advantaged way, you will be able to access other services suc