Machine Learning Engineer, Radar
Stripe is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer, Radar in Seattle, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
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Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.
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 to protect against AI token theft, free trial abuse, and scripted 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
- Build, train, evaluate, and deploy ML models that detect fraud across Stripe’s global payments network
- Research emerging fraud patterns like token theft and develop ML solutions to address them
- Apply advances in deep learning to improve model quality and detection rates at scale
- Co-build new fraud and abuse products directly with top users
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
- 2+ years of experience training, evaluating, and deploying ML models in a production environment
- Proficiency in Python and common data and ML frameworks like SQL, Spark, and PyTorch
- Strong knowledge of production ML systems; and data analysis, statistics, and experiment design fundamentals
- Active interest in the latest ML developments, and how they can be leveraged to solve business problems
Preferred qualifications
- Strong software engineering skills and ability to design ML solutions through entire product stack
- Experience building and optimizing real-time, low-latency ML infrastructure at scale
- Experience applying ML to fraud detection, integrity, trust and safety, or a closely related domain
How we rate this
Machine Learning Engineer, Radar at Stripe rates 88 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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