Stripe · 4 days ago
Machine Learning Engineer, Foundation Model
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$212K/yr - $318K/yr
5+ years expStripe is a company focused on accelerating global economic and technological development through financial infrastructure. The Machine Learning Engineer on the Foundation Model team will tackle challenging technical problems and contribute to the development of foundational models that enhance Stripe's payments and risk solutions.
FinanceFinTechMobile PaymentsSaaS
Responsibilities
Develop foundation models for payments, merchants, and consumers that span Stripe product areas
Fine-tune and optimize LLMs using SOTA techniques, including multimodal alignment, knowledge distillation, quantization, and reasoning to build highly specialized models
Drive technical excellence through hands-on contributions to the design and development of state-of-the-art AI/ML systems, conducting architecture reviews, and maintaining high code quality
Partner with engineering and product leaders across Stripe to identify and prioritize foundational investments such as foundation models, assistants, and agents that unlock new capabilities for product teams
Contribute to Stripe's technical strategy by representing AI/ML engineering perspectives in company-wide technical decisions and roadmap planning
Mentor ML engineers across Stripe on ML experimentation, helping teams navigate complex technical trade-offs, and adopt platform capabilities effectively
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience building and shipping ML models that power AI/ML product features, with a strong emphasis on modern technologies such as DNNs, Transformers, and Foundation Models
Strong programming skills in Python with demonstrated ability to write production-quality code
A strong experimental mindset, with a proven track record of identifying, prototyping, and validating SOTA machine learning methods to enhance model performance
Proven ability to shepherd large, complex ML projects and drive transformational change in an organization
Deep passion for solving really interesting problems and for building the latest technologies rather than relying on outdated methods
Preferred
A PhD or Master's degree with a research-oriented background, with the ability to dive into research papers and stay current with academic publications
Experience with a large-scale, data-rich product in a domain such as payments, commerce, search, or social media
Knowledge of the challenges and opportunities in applying ML to fraud prevention, merchant intelligence, or financial services
Published research or open source contributions in AI/ML or related fields
Benefits
Equity
Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
401(k) plan
Medical, dental, and vision benefits
Wellness stipends
Company
Stripe
Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$9.44BKey Investors
Tiger Global ManagementThrive CapitalFounders Fund
2025-02-27Secondary Market
2024-04-12Secondary Market· $694.16M
2024-03-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Steffan Tomlinson
CFO
Aitor Guevara
Head Of Engineering
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