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Plaid · 15 hours ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Payments

positionNew York, NY
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
senioritySenior Level
money$226K/yr - $337K/yr
date5+ years exp

Plaid is dedicated to empowering the transformation of how people interact with their finances by building tools and experiences for developers. The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will focus on designing, building, and deploying scalable ML solutions and systems to improve financial understanding for users.

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Responsibilities

Build with impact. Your work will empower millions of users through well-known and emerging Fintech Applications with access to financial services
Experiment with cutting edge ML modeling techniques
Work on both 0-1 stage problems as well as 1-10
Develop AI/ML models in a full life cycle, from offline training to online serving and monitoring
Collaborate with teams across Plaid to define ML roadmap
Dive deep into data and apply data driven decisions in day-to-day work
A high ownership, bottom-up driven team

Qualification

AI/ML model trainingNLP experienceData engineeringPythonDistributed systemsUser empathyFinTech experienceTeam collaborationCreativityOwnership

Required

5+ years in training and serving AI/ML models in a production environment
Experience in building/working with data intensive backend applications in large distributed systems
Ability to code and iterate independently on top of data infrastructure tools like Python, Spark, Jupyter notebooks, standard ML libraries, etc
Take pride in taking ownership and driving projects to business impact
Ability to work with technical and non-technical teams
Master's degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a closely related field

Preferred

Data analytics and data engineering experience is a plus
Experience with the industry application of NLP is a plus
Experience with the FinTech industry is a plus

Benefits

Medical
Dental
Vision
401(k)

Company

Plaid

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Plaid develops financial technology infrastructure that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts and financial data.
dateFounded in 2013
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size501-1000 employees
web-link
https://plaid.com

H1B Sponsorship

Plaid has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (41)
2024 (41)
2023 (42)
2022 (53)
2021 (30)
2020 (11)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$1.31B
Key Investors
Franklin TempletonAltimeter CapitalGoldman Sachs Investment Partners
2025-04-03Series Unknown· $575M
2025-04-03Secondary Market
2023-10-19Series Unknown

Leadership Team

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Zachary Perret
Co-Founder & CEO
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Eric Sager
COO
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