Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Financial Connections

Stripe
New York, NY
On-site

Who this role is best for

Geared toward experienced ML engineers comfortable with productionizing models for financial data at scale, with a focus on collaboration and autonomy in a fintech setting.

Best fit for

  • Experienced ML engineers with a track record in deploying models for financial data quality and accuracy
    — “10+ years of industry experience building and shipping ML systems in production
  • Candidates with strong data pipeline expertise and experience in large-scale systems
    — “Hands-on experience in orchestrating data pipelines and efficiently leveraging large-scale datasets
  • Individuals who thrive in autonomous, entrepreneurial environments with high responsibility
    — “Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility and an entrepreneurial mindset

Things to consider

  • The role requires a high level of independence and ownership of deployed models
    — “Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility
  • Candidates must have experience in productionizing ML systems, not just theoretical knowledge
    — “Hands-on experience in productionizing and deploying models at scale

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in deploying models that improved data quality in financial contexts
    — “Experiment and iterate on ML models to achieve key business goals around data quality and accuracy
  • Showcase your ability to design and build large-scale ML systems for diverse data sources
    — “Design and build large-scale ML systems that operate on diverse financial data
  • Emphasize your hands-on experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow
    — “Using tools such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost
  • Demonstrate your ability to build pipelines for both offline and online model training
    — “Develop pipelines and automated processes to train and evaluate models in offline and online environments
  • Show a history of solving ambiguous business problems with ML systems
    — “Proven track record of building and deploying ML systems that have effectively solved ambiguous business problems
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • designed and deployed ML models for transaction categorization and risk scoring
Typical background
10+ years of industry experience in ML systems

Skills & requirements

Required

Machine LearningData EngineeringModel DeploymentCollaboration

Preferred

FintechOpen BankingDeep LearningAdversarial Data Handling

Stack & domain

PyTorchTensorFlowXgboostSparkNLPLlmsText ClassificationFraud DetectionRisk ModelingData QualityCollaborationFintechOpen BankingFinancial Data

About the role

Original posting from Stripe

Who we are

About the team

Financial Connections is Stripe's open banking platform, enabling businesses to securely access consumer-permissioned financial data. Our platform connects to thousands of financial institutions, powering use cases from account verification to risk assessment to personal financial management. Across the Financial Connections Engineering org, we focus on delivering high-quality, enriched bank data at scale — building the ML systems that transform raw financial data into actionable signals for both internal Stripe teams and external merchants.

Our ML work spans transaction categorization, risk scoring, data enrichment, and the development of intelligent systems that improve data quality across our network. We operate at the intersection of fintech infrastructure and applied machine learning, solving problems that directly impact Stripe's ability to serve millions of businesses and consumers.

What you'll do

We're looking for machine learning engineers who want to build intelligent systems that provide financial data at scale. You'll play a key role in designing, training, and deploying ML models that improve the quality, accuracy, and usefulness of financial data across Stripe's ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Design, build, train, evaluate, deploy, and own ML models in production that improve transaction categorization, risk scoring, and data enrichment across Financial Connections

Design and build large-scale ML systems that operate on diverse financial data from thousands of institutions

Experiment and iterate on ML models (using tools such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost) to achieve key business goals around data quality and accuracy

Develop pipelines and automated processes to train and evaluate models in offline and online environments

Integrate ML models into production systems and ensure their scalability and reliability

Collaborate with product, data science, and engineering partners across Stripe to identify opportunities where ML can improve outcomes for merchants and consumers

Engage with the latest ML/AI developments and take calculated risks in transforming innovative ideas into productionized solutions

Mentor engineers and contribute to a strong ML engineering culture within the team

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

10+ years of industry experience building and shipping ML systems in production

Proficient with ML libraries and frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost, as well as Spark

Hands-on experience in designing, training, and evaluating machine learning models

Hands-on experience in productionizing and deploying models at scale

Hands-on experience in orchestrating data pipelines and efficiently leveraging large-scale datasets

Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across teams and contribute to peers' success

Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility and an entrepreneurial mindset

Preferred qualifications

MS or PhD degree in ML/AI or a related field (e.g., math, physics, statistics, computer science)

Experience in fintech, open banking, or financial data domains

Experience with NLP, LLMs, or text classification at scale

Experience in adversarial or noisy-data domains such as fraud detection, risk modeling, or data quality

Proven track record of building and deploying ML systems that have effectively solved ambiguous business problems

Experience with deep learning architectures, including transformers

Source: Stripe careers

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