Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Machine Learning Engineer

As a Machine Learning Engineer on Venmo's Data Science team, you'll tackle high-impact challenges that shape how millions of people move and manage money with friends, family, and businesses. Our work spans personalization, retention, trust, discovery, and growth from predicting churn before it happens to powering Venmo's search and recommendations, to building smarter fraud and risk models. You'll leverage Venmo's unique social graph and financial ecosystem to design ML solutions that drive engagement, safety, and meaningful product experiences.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and optimization of advanced machine learning models.
• Oversee the preprocessing and analysis of large datasets.
• Deploy and maintain ML solutions in production environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate ML models into products and services.
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of deployed models, making necessary adjustments.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Extensive experience with ML frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and tools for data processing and model deployment.

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:

Nice to Have

- Experience in social platforms, fintech, consumer apps, or payments ecosystems.

- Familiarity with real-time ML model serving and streaming infrastructure.

- Contributions to research publications or open-source ML projects.