Plaid

Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Data Foundation, AI

Plaid

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $225,600 - $337,200 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Distributed SystemsPythonPyTorch

About the role

  • Design, build, and scale advanced ML/AI systems that power Plaid products and applications.
  • Develop reliable distributed training and serving systems.
  • Improve ML operations at scale.
  • Build AI-powered applications that enable new product experiences.
  • Collaborate with team members and experiment with cutting-edge ML and AI techniques.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience training, deploying, and scaling ML/AI models in production environments.
  • Strong experience with distributed systems and ML operations — from large-scale training to low-latency serving and monitoring.
  • Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch), with the ability to implement and optimize complex models.
  • Hands-on experience building or scaling ML/AI infrastructure, pipelines, or reusable platforms that support multiple teams.
  • Curiosity and drive to experiment with advanced AI techniques (e.g., embeddings, retrieval, generative modeling) while staying grounded in production impact.
  • Experience applying ML/AI in fintech or similarly regulated industries is a plus.
  • Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment, working with both technical and non-technical partners to drive measurable outcomes.
Benefits
  • Comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
ML/AI systemsdistributed systemsML operationsPythonPyTorchmodel optimizationML/AI infrastructureML pipelinesembeddingsgenerative modeling
Soft skills
collaborationcuriositydriveexperimentationcommunicationworking with technical partnersworking with non-technical partnersmeasurable outcomes
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