Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Who you are

• This role is ideal for an engineer who combines strong machine learning and production engineering experience with sound judgment in high-integrity financial systems
• We are looking for engineers with a customer-problem-first mindset and experience building reliable ML systems in production
• You have 8+ years of experience as an engineer working in the machine learning domain
• You are a strong Python programmer and you have experience in Java
• You have experience with the full machine learning model lifecycle in production flows
• You have experience leveraging big data to create the pipelines needed to feed the models with appropriate data
• You have a strong understanding of good software engineering practices as well as data engineering and MLOps principles
• You have knowledge of data science, statistics and machine learning techniques
• You have strong familiarity with the standard data science toolkit in python, such as (py)spark, (Trino) SQL, Tensorflow, PyTorch, XGBoost/LightGBM, Pandas, MLFlow or similar MLOps frameworks, and Airflow
• You have knowledge/experience of working with ML infrastructure components with tools such as k8s, docker, airflow, argo-workflows, prometheus, grafana
• You have an experimental mindset with a launch fast and iterate mentality
• You proactively take the lead in projects, from ideation to deployment. You have experience working with a wide range of stakeholders and can clearly communicate complex outcomes over a wide range of audiences
• You have experience on underwriting models or systems
• You have experience working with a Machine Learning ‘Feature Store’
• Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!

What the job involves

• The Financial Products org at Adyen is at the forefront of our evolution, building the foundational infrastructure that enables our customers to manage their finances, issue cards, and access credits and financing globally
• Adyen is building a Machine Learning Engineering team in San Francisco focused on Credit Risk Modeling for Underwriting within Financial Products
• This team will develop the models, scorecards, and production systems that enable Adyen to scale its credit products 100x
• As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer you will design, productionize, and operate machine learning models and rule-based decision systems that power credit products
• You will work across the full model lifecycle, from research and data analysis to training, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement
• You will help build continuous data flywheels that improve underwriting decisions while balancing rapid product innovation with robustness, explainability, and global scale
• You will work closely with product, engineering, risk, and data teams to deliver underwriting capabilities for some of the world’s leading businesses
• Develop and maintain scalable production ML pipelines for feature engineering, model training, validation, and deployment. Examples ML domains are: supervised and semi-supervised learning methods for inference on credit risk patterns
• Identify and fix performance bottlenecks in ML training and inference (memory consumption, online latency, training time etc.)
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate ML solutions into products and services
• Collaborate with CreditOps and data teams to integrate effectively with current tools, and shape priority for future tools
• Support and encourage good engineering practices on product ML teams

The application process

• Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role

Benefits

• Global exchange program
• Weekly happy hour
• Delicious healthy lunches
• Phantom share package
• Yearly trip to Amsterdam
• Paid holidays
• Work from home opportunities