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Block · 2 months ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Risk Signals & Controls

Bay Area, CA, United States of America

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$277K/yr - $415K/yr

12+ years exp

Block is a company that builds technology to increase access to the global economy. They are seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to design and maintain data pipelines, enhance modeling capabilities, and collaborate with ML Modellers and Software Engineers to optimize fraud detection and signal quality.

Financial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain data pipelines to ingest third parties and Block data to enhance our feature store and modeling capabilities

Design elegant ML pipelines and services, prototype new approaches, and productionize solutions at scale

Build tooling to help maintain our features and models, gaining efficiencies in fraud detection

Work hand-in-hand with ML Modelers to identify and integrate new data sources, heuristics and models

Solve challenging technical problems at scale, collaborating with colleagues located across the globe

Apply ML and engineering best practices to shape how Block develops, tests, and maintains ML-platform solutions

Ensure data quality and completeness through automated validation, monitoring, and alerting

Own your solutions from design through to operation: we all share the pager!

Qualification

Machine LearningData EngineeringPythonKotlinAWSKubernetesMySQLSparkCuriosityCommunicationLeadership

Required

12+ years of experience in software development and demonstrated technical initiative and leadership on previous machine learning projects

A proven ability to shape how teams effectively adopt and evolve AI practices; driving adoption of AI-first workflows by coaching leaders, identifying scalable use cases, and embedding quality and accountability in team norms

Work autonomously in a fast paced, ambiguous and unpredictable environment

Natural curiosity & eagerness to learn

Show the ability to take initiative, lead, and drive creative solutions in cross-team contexts

A strong interest in owning your solutions, maintaining and fixing them as necessary

Communicate via clear and concise writing to facilitate asynchronous collaboration across multiple time zones

Reason about complex, distributed systems at high scale

Proficiency in machine learning techniques, experimental design and data engineering

Strong programming skills in languages such as Kotlin, Python, TensorFlow, or PyTorch

Benefits

Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance)

Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account

Retirement Plans including company match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance

Paid parental and caregiving leave

Paid time off (including 12 paid holidays)

Paid sick leave (1 hour per 26 hours worked (max 80 hours per calendar year to the extent legally permissible) for non-exempt employees and covered by our Flexible Time Off policy for exempt employees)

Learning and Development resources

Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits

Company

Block

Glassdoor3.9

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment.

Founded in 1990

Oakland, California, US

10001+ employees

https://block.xyz/

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