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Plaid is seeking an AI Security Engineer to be the first line of defense for AI security within the company. This role involves reviewing new AI technologies to identify and mitigate security risks before and after deployment. The engineer will design and implement controls, guardrails, and identity management systems to enable Plaid to leverage AI safely and aggressively without compromising security. This is a critical role in ensuring Plaid can be a leader in AI, both internally and externally, while maintaining a secure environment.

$189k - $243k

Plaid is seeking a Senior Research Scientist for its Fraud Data team. This role focuses on applied research to develop next-generation fraud detection models using advanced techniques like Graph Neural Networks and Transformer-based foundation models. You will partner closely with Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists to uncover new signals, explore innovative modeling approaches, and translate promising research into production-ready solutions that strengthen fraud detection across Plaid’s network. The team owns the full model lifecycle, from data processing and experimentation to feature pipelines, model serving, and monitoring. This position offers the opportunity to work with large-scale financial data and contribute to building tools that millions of people rely on for their financial health.

$229k - $315k

Plaid is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join their Data team within the Fraud organization. This role will focus on building and scaling machine learning systems that power Plaid's fraud detection products, leveraging unique network data to identify and stop fraud. The team owns the full ML lifecycle, from feature pipelines and model training to production serving and monitoring, building reliable and scalable systems. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will own the development of high-performance feature computation and online inference pipelines, build robust observability and monitoring capabilities, and partner closely with ML Infrastructure, Data Science, and Product teams to deliver high-impact ML solutions.

$229k - $315k

Plaid is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join their Fraud Data team. This role will focus on developing and deploying machine learning systems to enhance Plaid's fraud detection products. You will work across the full data science and machine learning lifecycle, from identifying new signals and experimenting with models to deploying and optimizing them in production. The goal is to continuously learn from real-world performance and customer feedback to protect customers from evolving fraud threats. You will lead projects from initial experiments through model deployment and ongoing improvement, identifying predictive patterns in Plaid's network data.

$229k - $315k

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Embedded Insights team, you will play a crucial role in shaping Plaid's future by developing innovative machine learning-powered products and features. Initially, you will focus on supporting the Plaid App, contributing to a new consumer-facing product from its inception and helping to establish its product-market fit. This role involves close collaboration with product managers, data scientists, engineers, and customers to transform ambiguous opportunities into effective ML systems that deliver measurable customer value. You will also contribute to the broader Embedded Insights team by analyzing unique datasets to identify high-impact ML opportunities, productionizing models, and optimizing the performance of existing ML systems.

$229k - $315k

Plaid is at the forefront of transforming the financial industry through AI. As a founding member of the newly formed AI Applications Team, you will play a pivotal role in scaling successful AI initiatives and accelerating Plaid's evolution into an AI-first company. This role offers the unique opportunity to lead projects that enable and scale our business with major AI customers and partners, starting with personal finance use cases and expanding into diverse areas. You will be instrumental in defining the future of AI in FinTech, from how consumers manage their finances to how developers build applications.

$265k - $370k

Plaid is transforming how people interact with their finances by building essential tools for developers. As a Staff Software Engineer on the AI & Intelligent Tooling team, you will be instrumental in establishing the technical foundations and internal platforms that embed AI across Plaid's software development lifecycle. This hands-on role offers significant ownership, focusing on building and operating AI-powered internal systems that directly impact engineer productivity and workflow. Your work will empower engineers to delegate tasks to AI agents, increase confidence, and dedicate more time to innovation, ultimately driving Plaid's evolution into an AI-first company.

$208k - $307k

Plaid is building AI-native tooling from the ground up to extend AI capabilities to non-engineers within the company. This role focuses on creating internal systems that empower teams like Ops and Support to automate their workflows using AI, addressing the limitations of tools designed solely for engineers. You will define and build the first durable versions of these AI surfaces, acting as the engineering point of contact embedded with non-engineering teams to translate their operational needs into shipped software. The work you do will fundamentally change how non-engineering teams at Plaid interact with AI.

$191k - $263k

Plaid is at the forefront of revolutionizing the FinTech industry through AI. We are building the tools and experiences that empower developers and consumers to interact with financial data in new ways. As AI drives a significant paradigm shift, Plaid is uniquely positioned to be the financial data backbone for AI applications. We are looking for a leader to join our newly formed AI Applications Team, dedicated to scaling our successful AI initiatives and accelerating Plaid's transformation into an AI-first company. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI in FinTech and influence industry developments.

$238k - $362k

Plaid is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join the Data Foundation & AI team. This team builds the shared ML and AI infrastructure that powers intelligent capabilities across Plaid's product suite, transforming unique financial network data into scalable, general-purpose representations. The role involves working at the intersection of machine learning infrastructure, applied AI, and distributed systems to establish the core AI platform that enables innovation. The Staff ML Engineer will lead the technical strategy and development of Plaid’s foundation models, driving key decisions across pretraining objectives, model architecture, and fine-tuning approaches. This position requires establishing rigorous evaluation frameworks, building scalable pipelines, and partnering with teams across the organization to define product integrations with foundation models. As a senior technical leader, you will mentor engineers, elevate engineering standards, and represent Plaid's AI and machine learning capabilities externally.

$249k - $368k