Plaid helps all companies build fintech solutions by making it easy, safe and reliable for people to connect their financial data to apps and services. Backed by Index, Kleiner Perkins and NEA.
About the role
Owning the end-to-end technical strategy for a foundation model built on one of the world's richest financial datasets, from pretraining architecture to production serving. Doing research that ships: driving decisions from experimentation through production systems that serve real customers and power multiple product teams. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- MS: 7–12+ years of industry experience with a demonstrated track record of technical leadership and production delivery
- PhD: 5–9+ years of industry experience with evidence of technical leadership (tech lead, principal/staff-equivalent roles) and end-to-end production ownership
- Prior technical leadership experience (tech lead, principal, or staff) with demonstrated cross-team influence and mentorship
- Deep expertise in Transformers/LLMs/Foundation Models, including large-scale training or domain adaptation
- End-to-end production ownership, proven track record shipping models through training, serving, monitoring, and iteration in live environments
- Distributed training experience and strong Python + software engineering fundamentals at a staff level
More about this role
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam.
We are the Data Foundation & AI team within Plaid’s Data organization. Our mission is to build the shared ML and AI infrastructure that powers intelligent capabilities across Plaid’s product suite. We develop the foundational systems, models, and data assets that transform Plaid’s unique financial network data into scalable, general-purpose representations that teams across the company can...
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