Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Radar

Stripe
United States

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior machine learning engineers with extensive experience in fraud detection and large-scale systems, who thrive in collaborative, autonomous environments.

Best fit for

  • Senior ML engineers with 10+ years of experience in production systems and fraud detection domains
    — “10+ years of industry experience building and shipping ML systems in production”
  • Candidates with hands-on experience in deploying models at scale and managing data pipelines
    — “Hands-on experience in productionizing and deploying models at scale”
  • Individuals who can independently lead model development and ship new products from scratch
    — “opportunities to ship 0-to-1 products from scratch”

Things to consider

  • The role demands high autonomy and entrepreneurial initiative in model development
    — “Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility and an entrepreneurial mindset”
  • The position requires strong collaboration across multiple teams and functions
    — “Collaborate with product, data science, and engineering partners across Stripe”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in deploying ML models in high-stakes, real-time environments
    — “10+ real-time deep learning models that must constantly evolve”
  • Emphasize a track record of solving ambiguous business problems with ML systems
    — “Proven track record of building and deploying ML systems that have effectively solved ambiguous business problems”
  • Showcase expertise in adversarial domains like fraud detection or risk modeling
    — “Experience in adversarial or noisy-data domains such as fraud detection, risk modeling, or data quality”
  • Demonstrate familiarity with deep learning architectures, particularly transformers
    — “Experience with deep learning architectures, including transformers”
  • Demonstrate ability to build and evaluate models in both offline and online environments
    — “Develop pipelines and automated processes to train and evaluate models in offline and online environments”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • successful fraud detection models
  • improved fraud prevention
Typical background
machine learningfraud detection

Skills & requirements

Required

Machine LearningFraud DetectionModel DeploymentData Pipelines

Preferred

Fintech ExperienceDeep Learning

Stack & domain

Machine LearningFraud DetectionDeep LearningCollaborationProblem-solvingInnovationFintechPaymentsAI

About the role

Original posting from Stripe

Who we are

About the team

The Radar ML team builds the fraud detection models that protect Stripe's $1.9 trillion payment network from fraud. The team owns 10+ real-time deep learning models that must constantly evolve to stay ahead of fraudsters. Each ML improvement translates directly into dollar impact for Stripe and its users. 

The team's models also power the Radar product suite that tens of thousands of businesses use to screen payments and manage fraud. Radar is growing fast, and the team is actively building new products like defenses against AI token theft, free trial abuse, and programmatic attacks.

What you'll do

In this role, you will own ML work across the full lifecycle: researching new fraud patterns, building and deploying models, and sharing results directly with top Stripe customers. You will have opportunities to optimize Stripe’s most intensive ML models, and opportunities to ship 0-to-1 products from scratch.

Responsibilities

Design, build, train, evaluate, deploy, and own ML models in production that detect fraud across Stripe’s global payments network

Design and build large-scale ML systems that operate on diverse and large scale data

Experiment and iterate on ML models 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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