Visa
Sr ML Engineer
US - Foster City, CA, USA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$145k-$225kDetected 7 hours ago
PythonDistributed SystemsCI/CDMachine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchSparkData EngineeringNLPLLMsMLOpsA/B TestingResearchCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- In this role, you will leverage cutting-edge machine learning and generative AI techniques to enhance merchant data, improve data quality, and unlock actionable insights that power critical business decisions across Visa's global ecosystem.
- Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
- U.S. Applicants Only The estimated salary range for this position is $145,200.00 to $ 224,800.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable).
Responsibilities
- Build end-to-end ML solutions (data ingestion → feature engineering → model training → deployment → monitoring), ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability
- Partner closely with product managers, data engineers, and platform teams to translate business problems into ML-driven solutions and influence product direction
- Develop and maintain data quality frameworks and observability systems to continuously monitor model performance, detect drift, and improve accuracy
- Optimize models and systems for latency, throughput, and cost efficiency, especially in real-time and large-scale environments
- Mentor junior engineers, review designs/code, and help elevate the team's technical standards and best practices
- Unlock new insights and data products that drive business value and innovation
Requirements
- 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience.
- Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar
- Hands-on experience with distributed systems, big data technologies (e.g., Spark), and cloud platforms.
- Experience with real-time inference systems, data pipelines, and MLOps tooling
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to handle ambiguous, open-ended problems independently.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams
- Basic Qualifications:
- Experience in developing and implementing AI/ML models and algorithms.
- Experience in designing and building scalable machine learning pipelines.
Nice to have
- 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD).
- Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate AI/ML solutions.
- Experience in collecting, preprocessing, and analyzing large datasets.
- Experience in modernizing legacy code and adopting emerging technologies.
- Experience in communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience in leading multiple workstreams in AI application development.
- Experience in generative AI and large language models (LLMs).
- Experience in infrastructure automation development and enhancing productivity using LLM models.
Compensation
- The estimated salary range for this position is $145,200.00 to $ 224,800.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable).
Benefits
- Design, develop, and deploy scalable machine learning models and pipelines to enrich merchant data, including entity resolution, attribute inference, and data standardization
- Strong experience building and deploying production-grade machine learning systems at scale
- Drive technical excellence and best practices in machine learning engineering.
- We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our Merchant Data Platform (MDP) AI/ML team, helping to build the next generation of an AI-powered merchant ecosystem.
Company info
- Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
- At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.
- Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.
- Job Description
- Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world.
- Progress starts with you.
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Merchant Data Platform:
- What We're Looking For:
Visa & Work Authorization
- In this role, you will leverage cutting-edge machine learning and generative AI techniques to enhance merchant data, improve data quality, and unlock actionable insights that power critical business decisions across Visa's global ecosystem.
- Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
- Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
This listing is sourced directly from Visa's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.