Wave Mobile Money · 5 hours ago
Machine Learning Scientist
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$0/yr - $223K/yr
5+ years expWave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent by building accessible financial services. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will architect and ship autonomous voice and digital agents to enhance customer interactions and solve complex technical challenges in emerging markets.
Financial ServicesFinTechMobile Payments
Responsibilities
Architect and ship autonomous voice and digital agents that power 10M+ customer interactions per month across West Africa
Own end-to-end agent systems from core models through multi-channel orchestration, architecting solutions that work reliably where connectivity is poor, literacy can be low, and most languages lack training data
Drive real ownership, from problem discovery to running in production, working alongside product and engineering leaders who prioritize shipping real customer impact
Shape that future by solving genuinely hard technical problems where systems either work or they fail
Qualification
Required
5 years of ML experience
Strong proficiency in Python and common ML libraries
Solid theoretical foundation in stats and ML
Experience working with voice agents
Proven hands-on experience building with LLMs or NLP systems (prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, fine-tuning, etc.)
Experience taking ML models from prototype to production and care deeply about reliability, performance, and scalability
Fluent in English, (bilingual in French is a big bonus!)
Preferred
Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and designing ML systems end-to-end without needing extremely detailed requirements
Understand the trade-offs between cutting-edge research and pragmatic engineering, and can choose the right tool for the job
Like working with large datasets, complex pipelines, and modern ML infra (distributed training, feature stores, monitoring, etc.)
Benefits
Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country).
6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance.
Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays.
$10,000 annual charitable donation matching.
Company
Wave Mobile Money
Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$438.66MKey Investors
Rand Merchant BankInternational Finance CorporationAlameda Research
2025-06-30Debt Financing· $137M
2022-07-06Debt Financing· $91.66M
2022-01-01Series Unknown· $10M
Leadership Team
Drew Durbin
Founder & CEO
Sid Sridhar
Head of Business
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