--- title: 'Senior ML Engineer at Afori' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-ml-engineer-afori-barcelona-4vtj2j1maxqk' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Senior ML Engineer at Afori - **Company:** Afori - **Location:** Barcelona, Spain - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/afori/am9icG9zdDpou_YsffaXqAeMryPQ2MTU ## Job description Help change one of the largest global industries: insurance brokerage. ## About Us Afori's vision is to ensure every human has the best cover before it's needed. Our founders previously built insurance unicorn wefox and are now building the AI layer for insurance brokers: agents that plug directly into brokers' daily workflows and take over the back-office work that eats more than 60% of their time. We already save brokers over 2.5 hours a day, freeing them up to do what actually grows the business: advising customers well. The opportunity is massive: the global protection gap is €1.3 trillion, and insurance distribution still runs on manual processes. [Sequoia recently mapped AI-native services opportunities](https://sequoiacap.com/article/services-the-new-software) and ranked insurance brokerage first, a $140-200B market. We raised a €4M pre-seed led by General Catalyst, backed by investors and operators including Mustafa Suleyman (CEO, Microsoft AI) and Alex Rinke (Co-CEO, Celonis) ## The Role You own how Afori's agents think. Not the interface and not the infrastructure, but the reasoning itself, and the economics of running it at scale across thousands of real insurance Cases in a regulated market. Key Responsibilities: - Learning Flywheel Architecture: Design and own the continuous learning loop for Afori's agent swarm: capturing agent outcomes, expert feedback, and case feedback to systematically improve agent performance over time. - Model Fine-Tuning & Distillation: Own the fine-tuning and distillation pipeline for specialized German insurance NLP tasks: selecting, training, and evaluating open-weight and proprietary models per task, with rigorous eval gates before production rollout. - Cross-Sell Intelligence Models: Build and own ML models that identify and score cross-sell opportunities across the customer book, translating APDB and account data into actionable revenue signals for the broker. - ML Infrastructure & Evaluation Standards: Establish and maintain the evaluation methodology (gold sets, benchmarks, abstention/faithfulness checks) and the serving infrastructure that all Afori ML models must meet before deployment. ## What We’re Looking For - Strong track record building and shipping ML systems in production: fine-tuning, distillation, and evaluation of both open-weight and proprietary LLMs. - Hands-on experience designing evaluation methodologies: gold sets, benchmarks, abstention and faithfulness checks, and eval gates that decide what reaches production. - Solid ML engineering fundamentals: training pipelines, serving infrastructure, and cost-aware inference at scale. - Comfort owning ambiguous problems end to end in a fast-moving early-stage environment. You are a finisher, not just a starter. - Bonus: German language skills, NLP experience in regulated domains (insurance, finance, legal, health), or experience with agentic systems and continuous learning loops. ## Compensation & Benefits We let you choose your own balance between cash certainty and ownership: a higher-cash or a higher-equity package, with the equity-weighted option carrying a deliberate premium in total value. - Base salary: Competitive - Team bonus: 10% of base at 100% team goal achievement, paid half in cash and half in equity. - Equity: A meaningful founding-level option grant in a4i Inc. (Delaware C-Corp TopCo), vesting over 4 years with a 1-year cliff, then monthly. Options convert to common shares on exercise, making you a real shareholder on the cap table. - Annual reviews: Compensation and options are rediscussed after 12 months at the latest. We grant options/shares annually, so the best performers continuously get more. Pathways to additional equity - Annual company ranking: Top performers receive additional equity at the annual compensation review. - Team goal achievement: When teams exceed objectives, you choose between a cash bonus and additional equity. - Promotion: Grants aligned with expanded responsibility. - Direct investment: You may invest personal funds into a4i Inc. Shares are issued immediately with no vesting. Relocation & Benefits Relocating to Barcelona? We handle it. If you move your tax residency to Spain, you may qualify for the Beckham regime (flat 24% income tax up to €600,000 for up to six years). Afori prepares, files and pays for the application, covers the gestoria review, provides a relocation bonus, and supports your NIE, Social Security and padrón registration. - Work policy: Office-first culture in Barcelona, with flexibility. - Paid time off: 24 days annual leave plus public holidays, rising by one day per year of service to a maximum of 30. - Learning support: We fund courses, conferences and certifications that help you develop, approved case by case. - Equipment: Whatever you need to do the work properly. - Team culture: Regular team events and genuine Dream Team collaboration. - Flexible start date: We accommodate your notice period and, if needed, your move. The Process Speed matters to us. With the right person, we can run the whole process in under two weeks. - Intro call with Felix, founding team member - Interview with Sergi, our Co-Founder & CTO - Interview with Fabian, our CEO & Co-Founder - One-day trial with us in the Barcelona office Send your CV (or LinkedIn/GitHub profile) and a short note on the most interesting ML system you have built. ## About Afori ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Afori builds an AI platform that automates administrative and back-office tasks for insurance brokers, starting with email inbox management and tariff comparisons. - **Entity Type**: Private – raised a Seed round (EUR 4M, Oct 2025) and a Pre-Seed round (USD 4.6M, Nov 2025) led by General Catalyst. - **Headquarters**: Barcelona, Spain - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Fabian Wesemann (CEO) and Sergi Baños (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Insurance technology (InsurTech), AI-powered workflow automation, productivity software - **Target customers**: Insurance brokers (B2B) – specifically their back-office and administrative teams - **Mission or purpose statement**: To give brokers more time for client advisory by reducing their administrative workload through AI; to help brokers continue fulfilling their social role of helping people protect themselves. ## Products & Services - **Afori AI Inbox Agent**: An AI agent integrated with Outlook that reads emails, understands insurance terms and processes, and transforms unstructured communications into structured workflows (tasks, checks, filings). - **Tariff Comparison Agent**: Automatically compares legacy and new tariffs from policy documents, surfacing differences that matter to the client. - **AI Assistant for Insurance Brokers**: Combines a proprietary insurance database (34d, GDV data, legislation) with a broker’s own cases to deliver context-appropriate answers and redact sensitive data. - **General AI Agents**: Specialised agents for repetitive office tasks (emails, customer inquiries, document checks) that learn from the broker’s behaviour without setup or training. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (recent early-stage startup) - **Key Metric**: Total funding – EUR 4M Seed (Oct 2025) + USD 4.6M Pre-Seed (Nov 2025) = approximately USD 9M+ combined; also a prior round of EUR 4M. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst led the Pre-Seed round; the Seed round included 9 investors (not named in the data). The platform connects to “MVP” systems (German insurance industry standard). - **Growth Signals**: Founded in 2025, already 15 employees distributed across Spain, Germany, UK, and Japan (LinkedIn). Active hiring for founding-level roles (Senior Product Manager, Senior NodeJS Backend Engineer, Summer Internship 2026). ## Competitive Advantages - **Insurance-specific AI**: Afori’s database is “filled with insurance-specific knowledge: 34d, tariffs, GDV data, and relevant legislation” – a niche moat. - **GDPR & ISO 27001 certified**: Hosted exclusively in the EU, data processing is documented and verifiable, critical for trust in regulated insurance markets. - **Pragmatic, broker-built**: Co-founders each have 10+ years in insurance (Fabian at wefox, Sergi as first engineer at wefox), and the team includes licensed insurance brokers. - **Zero-setup adaptation**: “Afori learns your way of working and takes on more with every process. Entirely without setup or training.” ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Automating the highest-friction back-office tasks (email inbox, tariff comparison); expanding AI agents to cover more broker workflows; scaling the team with founding and senior talent across engineering and product. - **Direction for growth**: Enabling AI-assisted brokers to serve more clients with personalised advice, while reducing administrative burden; continued expansion into European markets (already has a presence in Germany, UK, Japan). ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: Early-stage startup where new hires are “founding” team members; strong emphasis on pragmatic, service-driven engineering and solving real problems for brokers. Team includes experienced founders who have built companies before, engineers from Amazon, AI researchers, and Wharton graduates. - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Hybrid workspace – employees combine remote and on-site work; typical time on-site in Barcelona, Spain. - **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Opportunity to shape AI agents from the ground up; involvement in context engineering, RAG, microservice orchestration; summer internship tracks in knowledge systems, website redesign, and automation processes. The company is “pragmatic, service-driven, built with and for brokers.” ## Sources 1. [afori.com/en/](https://www.afori.com/en/) 2. [afori.com/en/ressourcen/uber-uns](https://www.afori.com/en/ressourcen/uber-uns) 3. [linkedin.com/company/afori-ai](https://linkedin.com/company/afori-ai) 4. [builtin.com/company/afori/jobs](https://builtin.com/company/afori/jobs) 5. 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