Wave Mobile Money · 7 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, providing financial services that are accessible and effective. The Machine Learning Scientist will bridge research and production, building AI models and agent systems that enhance customer interactions and support automation across West Africa.
Financial ServicesFinTechMobile Payments
Responsibilities
Bridge research and production, building AI models and agent systems that ship into real products
Architect, evaluate, and optimize autonomous voice and digital agents powering 10M+ customer interactions per month across West Africa
Build for the hardest edge cases: poor connectivity, low literacy, and languages with little training data
Experiment with, evaluate, and integrate the latest voice and text models
Own problems end-to-end, from problem discovery to running in production, working alongside product and engineering leaders who prioritize shipping real customer impact
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering
Strong Python and backend engineering skills
Solid foundation in statistics and ML theory
Proven hands-on experience building with LLMs (prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, fine-tuning, agent orchestration etc.)
Track record taking ML models from prototype to production and care deeply about reliability, performance, and scalability
Fluency with AI coding agents, with bonus points for deploying them as part of production systems
Fluent in English
Preferred
Research background in speech or LLMs
Proven Voice AI experience (ASR, TTS, latency optimization, real-time streaming, voice agents)
Experience building customer support or conversational AI systems
You follow the latest research in speech and LLMs, and know how to translate papers into production wins
Familiarity with low-resource language challenges
Bilingual in French
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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2021 (2)
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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