Senior AI Engineer - AML

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Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

Senior AI Engineer

We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join our AML (Anti-Money Laundering) Tech team in Amsterdam. You will help build our next-generation financial crime investigation system, leveraging AI to manage and mitigate risk at scale. With our global footprint, you will have access to a uniquely rich dataset to fuel these solutions.

You will bridge the gap between applied research and engineering excellence, taking ownership of the end-to-end lifecycle of these AI systems – from initial ideation to production. We are building a Human-in-the-Loop system. By evolving our capabilities from isolated workflows to a highly performant, trustworthy agentic system, you will shape how humans and AI collaborate in a complex, regulated domain.

This is a unique opportunity to be part of the foundational group driving AI product development at Adyen. You will be building zero-to-one products, setting the architectural standards for our team, and defining how AI is practically deployed across the company.

In this role, you will

Build Agentic Systems: You will lead the design and deployment of robust, multi-step AI agents tailored for complex investigation workflows (orchestration, tool dispatching, state and memory management, error recovery, human-in-the-loop design).

Develop Platform Infrastructure: You will build a scalable m