Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Block
Risk AI
$168.3-297k
Salary dependent on location
Financial services ecosystem
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Financial services ecosystem
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$168.3-297k
Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of Software Engineering and/or ML experience, with a track record of solving business problems with technology and proven experience successfully taking ownership of an end-to-end solution
- Work autonomously in a fast paced, ambiguous and unpredictable environment
- Be naturally curious & eager to learn
- Work creatively, taking initiative and leading when required
- Grow your solutions, maintaining and fixing them as necessary
- Communicate via clear and concise writing to facilitate asynchronous collaboration across multiple time zones
- Reason about complex, distributed systems at high scale
- Proficiency in machine learning techniques, experimental design and data engineering
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, TensorFlow, or PyTorch
What the job involves
- The Risk AI team’s mission is to develop cutting-edge deep learning-based signals and learned representations for Risk ML models
- Design, build and maintain Machine Learning systems that enable us to flag fraudulent activities in real-time
- Work hand-in-hand with ML Modellers to identify and integrate new data sources, heuristics and models
- Solve challenging technical problems at scale, collaborating with colleagues located across the globe
- Own your solutions from design through to operation: we all share the pager!
- Lead the conception, design, and implementation of large-scale experiments to validate novel ideas rapidly and comprehensively
- Apply the latest theoretical advancements to enhance existing products, processes, and technologies, ensuring they remain at the forefront of the industry
- Engage in the creation of experiments, prototyping, and architectural design, contributing to a diverse range of computer science domains such as machine learning, data mining, natural language processing, and performance analysis
- Take the lead in designing systems, data structures, frameworks, and evaluation metrics for research solution development
- Conduct experiments aligned with research inquiries, employing simulations and prototypes to assess the outcomes
Our take
Block is a financial services technology company comprising of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD. Its biggest brand, Square, offers hardware and software for small to medium-sized businesses enabling them to manage the entire payment lifecycle. It functions similarly to Shopify and Stripe, but has paired online payment processing with physical devices such as registers, payment terminals, and mobile card readers.
The business was originally founded as Square in 2009 by Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame. Already well-established with SMEs all over the globe, Square has significantly benefited from the increased demand for mobile payment systems. Its order management feature remains a go-to tool for small businesses that otherwise didn't have the proper infrastructure in place when demand for home delivery surged.
Square rebranded as Block in December 2021, with the Square brand name remaining in place for their seller business. The company has since come under fire for its security practices, facing lawsuits in relation to a major breach of CashApp user data, and in 2024 announced plans to reduce its workforce in order to cut costs. Despite these setbacks, there is every chance the business will move past this, though it may take some time to rebuild trust in its product.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance)
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
- Retirement Plans including company match
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance
- Paid parental and caregiving leave
- Paid time off (including 12 paid holidays)
- Paid sick leave (1 hour per 26 hours worked (max 80 hours per calendar year to the extent legally permissible) for non-exempt employees and covered by our Flexible Time Off policy for exempt employees)
- Learning and Development resources
- Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Jack Dorsey
(CEO)Having studied at and dropped out of New York University, Jack founded Twitter in March 2006, where he has served as CEO since. He co-founded Square with Jim in February 2009, and has remained its CEO ever since.
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