Senior AI Engineer (All Genders)

About the role

zooplus, a pet e-commerce company founded in 1998, is hiring a Senior AI Engineer in Madrid. The role embeds AI capabilities across the software development lifecycle to improve engineering productivity, delivery quality and automation in the Acquisition & Retention area, focusing on intelligent developer workflows built with Model Context Protocol (MCP), context engineering, LLM orchestration and AI-driven tooling.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement AI-driven SDLC accelerators such as code generation, review automation, smart testing and documentation support.
• Develop MCP-based extensions and context-aware tools to streamline developer workflows.
• Apply context engineering to improve LLM reasoning, accuracy and relevance across engineering use cases.
• Build LLM-integrated CI/CD workflows for pull request analysis, test automation and deployment support.
• Collaborate with engineering, platform and product teams to identify and scale AI adoption opportunities.

Required profile

• Tech-agnostic mindset with strong programming experience in Java, Python, JavaScript or Kotlin, or broad knowledge across several of them.
• Hands-on experience integrating LLMs into engineering or product workflows.
• Good understanding of RAG, embeddings and vector databases.
• Experience with intelligent test automation and CI/CD pipelines.

Required skills

• MCP engineering: building modular, context-aware AI tooling.
• Context engineering: structuring inputs for reliable AI reasoning.
• AI-augmented architecture: integrating AI into engineering systems.
• Product thinking: identifying high-value GenAI use cases.
• Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform.

What we offer

• Hybrid working: 60% in the office, 40% at home, with the option to work 20 days abroad in approved countries.
• Development opportunities, training and support, wellbeing offers and subsidised transport or bike leasing.
• 20% discount across all products.