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…