Plaid · 10 hours ago
Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Fraud Data
Plaid is dedicated to empowering financial transformation by building tools and experiences for developers. As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer on Plaid’s Fraud Data team, you will design and build scalable ML infrastructure for fraud detection, mentor engineers, and shape the technical vision of the team.
BankingFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
Design and build scalable ML infrastructure for Plaid’s fraud detection product
Working at a fast-pace environment to build a rapidly growing product with a championship team
Solving complex problems at the intersection of ML systems, data, and reliability
Building the foundations for fraud detection on the largest financial dataset in the world
Collaborating with talented engineers and data scientists across Plaid
Qualification
Required
8+ years total experience, with at least 5 years building and deploying production ML systems
Proven experience in machine learning infrastructure/operations
Demonstrated technical leadership and architectural vision, driving systems from concept to production
Proficiency in Python, PyTorch, Spark, SageMaker, and Airflow, or equivalent technologies
Preferred
experience working in fraud detection, risk modeling, or financial security domains
background in graph machine learning or related techniques
Company
Plaid
Plaid develops financial technology infrastructure that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts and financial data.
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.31BKey Investors
Franklin TempletonAltimeter CapitalGoldman Sachs Investment Partners
2025-04-03Series Unknown· $575M
2025-04-03Secondary Market
2023-10-19Series Unknown
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