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Staff Machine Learning Engineer

San Jose, California, United States of America💼 Full-time💰 $227,639–$300,500🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-18

Core

Design and deploy scalable Risk analytical and Generative AI solutions, productizing ML models to enhance PayPal's customer experience and automate workflows.

Role type

Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Risk & Generative AI)

Builds

Production ML models, AI agents, and risk analytics pipelines for payments and fraud detection.

Domain

Fintech / Payments / Risk Analytics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, Java, Generative AI (LLMs, RAG, AI agents), Spark/Hadoop/Flink, AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow/MLflow, Risk analytics/Fraud detection, CI/CD, Git

Preferred skills

Leading cross-functional teams in matrix organizations, mentoring senior/junior engineers

Technologies

Python, Java, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Spark, Hadoop, Flink, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, MLflow, Git

Responsibilities

Design and deploy scalable risk and generative AI solutions; lead architecture design and technical decision-making; mentor team members; develop AI agents for workflow automation and issue detection.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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