Senior AI Engineer – Customer & Marketing Systems

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Barcelona, Cataluña, ESP
Hybrid
Senior level
Software
The Role
Design, deploy, and maintain production-scale AI/ML systems for personalization, semantic search, and RAG. Own vector database strategy, data models in BigQuery, embedding and retrieval pipelines, and GCP-based AI services. Partner with product and marketing teams and set engineering standards for reliability and production ML.
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About Kiwi.com

 

Kiwi.com is a leading global travel-tech company headquartered in the Czech Republic. Our innovative algorithm enables users to find better route options and prices other search engines can’t see, daily performing billions of price checks across 95% of global flight content. Are you bold, bright and curious? Join a global business that’s still got a start-up heart.

 
 

About our Customer & Marketing Engineering Team

In the Kiwi.com Customer & Marketing Engineering team, we focus on building intelligent systems that drive how we interact with millions of global travelers. Working with a Google Cloud-native stack, our mission is to leverage cutting-edge AI, machine learning, and semantic search to personalize travel discovery and campaign automation. We build for depth and speed, deploying models that have an immediate business impact and directly shape the customer journey.

 
 

What you will do

  • Design and deploy scalable AI/ML systems that power our customer platforms, focusing on personalization, semantic search, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

  • Own our vector database strategy using technologies like Vertex AI Vector Search, pgvector, or Pinecone to support high-scale similarity search.

  • Define and govern key data models in BigQuery, capturing complex customer behaviors, campaign interactions, and event schemas.

  • Build robust retrieval and embedding pipelines to integrate AI-driven intelligence into our CRM, CDP, and marketing automation tools.

  • Architect and launch AI services on GCP utilizing Vertex AI, Cloud Run, GKE, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub.

  • Partner directly with product and marketing teams to turn customer and commercial opportunities into highly optimized AI/ML products.

  • Set engineering standards for AI production reliability, leading system evaluations, and guiding fellow engineers through technical design and code reviews.

 
 

What you will need

  • Significant hands-on experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining production-grade AI/ML systems at scale.

  • Deep expertise within the GCP ecosystem, especially with BigQuery and Vertex AI, alongside hands-on vector database utilization.

  • Strong data modeling skills (relational and dimensional) with experience handling high-volume customer datasets and event schemas.

  • Advanced Python proficiency and deep familiarity with machine learning frameworks, LLMs, and RAG architectures.

  • Familiarity with marketing tech infrastructure—such as CRMs, CDPs, or automation tools—and a solid grasp of data privacy (e.g., GDPR).

  • A strong bias for action and automation, thriving in a lean, fast-paced environment where we value speed over perfection and iterate in real-time.

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English language, with the ability to articulate complex technical decisions to diverse stakeholders.

We offer you

  • We offer a hybrid and flexible work environment. A lovely, modern office in the center of Barcelona (Passeig de Gracia) with great views and amenities.

  • Monthly entitlement of 200 Euro redeemable through Cobee. Cobee is a benefits platform offering a range of benefits (meals, transport, nursery, health insurance, and physical wellness) and flexible compensation. It also allows our employees to allocate up to 30% of their gross salary to the consumption of certain products or services, leveraging tax exemption.

  • We also enjoy benefits, such as flexible working hours, 30 paid vacation days and sick days.

  • Annual financial bonus based on company and individual performance.

  • Flight vouchers to celebrate your Kiwi anniversaries.

  • Relocation package (including visa transfer support).

  • Dogs are welcome in our offices.

Interested? Join us and help us make travel more accessible to all.

Kiwi.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, uniformed services, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Throughout the recruitment process and for some time after it’s finished, we’re going to process your Personal Data. You can find all the necessary information in our Privacy Policy available at: https://jobs.kiwi.com/recruitment-privacy-policy/.

Skills Required

  • Significant hands-on experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining production-grade AI/ML systems at scale.
  • Deep expertise within the GCP ecosystem, especially BigQuery and Vertex AI.
  • Hands-on experience with vector databases (Vertex AI Vector Search, pgvector, Pinecone) and similarity search.
  • Strong data modeling skills (relational and dimensional) and experience with high-volume customer datasets and event schemas.
  • Advanced Python proficiency and familiarity with machine learning frameworks, LLMs, embeddings, and RAG architectures.
  • Experience architecting and launching AI services on GCP using Cloud Run, GKE, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub.
  • Experience building retrieval and embedding pipelines integrated with CRM, CDP, or marketing automation tools.
  • Familiarity with marketing tech infrastructure (CRMs, CDPs, automation) and data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR).
  • Strong written and verbal English communication skills to articulate technical decisions to stakeholders.
  • Bias for action and automation; ability to work in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
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The Company
HQ: Brno
984 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Kiwi.com is a leading global travel tech company headquartered in the Czech Republic, employing over 1,200 people worldwide. Kiwi.com’s innovative algorithm enables users to find better route options and prices other search engines can’t see, performing billions of price checks per day across 95% of global flight content. 100 million searches are carried out every day on Kiwi.com’s website and partner channels. On average over 70,000 seats are sold daily.

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