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Machine Learning Engineer, Link

Stripe · New York City · On-site

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About Stripe

Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models, and manage money movement. Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Kleiner Perkins.

About the role

As a machine learning engineer on Link Fraud and Auth, you’ll build and operate models and risk decisioning systems that protect Link while helping more legitimate payments succeed. You’ll work across the full machine learning lifecycle, from analyzing fraud patterns and identifying opportunities to building, deploying, monitoring, and improving models in production.

What they're looking for

  • 6+ years of industry experience building and shipping machine learning models in production
  • Strong programming skills in Python and experience with common data and machine learning tools, such as SQL, Spark, and XGBoost
  • Strong knowledge of production machine learning systems, including data pipelines, feature development, model evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration
  • Experience working with large and complex datasets and applying data analysis, statistics, and experimentation fundamentals
  • Demonstrated ability to take an open-ended business problem, determine where machine learning can help, and own the solution through production
  • Strong judgment in selecting practical modeling approaches and evaluating tradeoffs among model performance, system complexity, latency, and business impact
More about this role

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.

Link is a digital wallet designed for fast and secure online payments. It allows consumers to save and use their preferred payment methods across the Link network, helping them check out quickly and securely wherever Link is accepted.

The Link Fraud and Auth team works to make Link the most trusted and highest-performing way to pay. We protect consumers and merchants from fraud, abuse, and financial loss while maximizing authorization rates for good users. Our work spans consumer-facing experiences, payment infrastructure, and ML powered risk systems.

We manage fraud and financial risk across a growing range of novel Link features, including Link’s agentic wallet, stored balance, and LPMs. The...

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