AI Engineer II

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

AI Engineer II

Overview

As an AI Engineer on the AI Foundations team, you will build intelligent data products and solutions leveraging vast datasets from retail, restaurants, financial institutions, and other consumer-focused businesses. Your mission will be to develop high-performance AI and data systems that apply cutting-edge machine learning — including deep learning — to unlock insights from big data while upholding the highest standards of data privacy and security.

You will design and implement scalable analytical solutions that process billions of transactions, as well as create intuitive front-end visualizations that help businesses harness the full value of their data.

In this role, you will also have the opportunity to design innovative AI-driven solutions, identify opportunities to meet business and client needs quantitatively, and deliver data-driven recommendations through initiatives such as automated data pipelines, large-scale model deployment, and distributed job execution using modern frameworks like Spark, Hive, and Impala.

Job Description

In this role, you will:

• Build, deploy, and maintain production-grade AI applications and data processing pipelines.
• Apply test-driven development (TDD) principles and leverage testing frameworks to ensure robust, high-quality code.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, engineers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Conduct proofs of concept (POCs) to evaluate and integrate emerging technologies and methodologies.
• Work effectively within a diverse, cross-functional, and geographically distributed project team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Software Engineer, Data Engineer, or in a related data solutions role.
• Proven experience in deploying machine learning models, APIs, or web applications to production environments.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with Java experience considered a plus.
• Familiarity with cloud-native big data frameworks such as Hadoop, YARN, Spark, Hive, Impala, NiFi, and Airflow.
• Experience deploying solutions in cloud platforms such as AWS, Cloudera, or Databricks, and integrating data visualization tools like Tableau, Power BI, or Databricks SQL dashboards.
• Working knowledge of software engineering best practices including Git, Jira, and DevOps workflows.
• Experience in microservices architecture, data modeling, data monitoring, dashboarding, and data warehousing concepts.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.