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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Radar

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N/A · US · 10+ years experience · Posted Sep 28, 2026

At a glance

Experience
10+ years experience
Location
N/A · US

About the role

  • The Radar ML team builds the fraud detection models that protect Stripe's $1.9 trillion payment network from fraud.
  • In this role, you will own ML work across the full lifecycle: researching new fraud patterns, building and deploying models, and sharing results directly with top Stripe customers.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, train, evaluate, deploy, and own ML models in production that detect fraud across Stripe’s global payments network
  • Design and build large-scale ML systems that operate on diverse and large scale data
  • Experiment and iterate on ML models to achieve key business goals around data quality and accuracy
  • Develop pipelines and automated processes to train and evaluate models in offline and online environments
  • Integrate ML models into production systems and ensure their scalability and reliability
  • Collaborate with product, data science, and engineering partners across Stripe to identify opportunities where ML can improve outcomes for merchants and consumers
  • Engage with the latest ML/AI developments and take calculated risks in transforming innovative ideas into productionized solutions
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to a strong ML engineering culture within the team

Requirements

  • 10+ years of industry experience building and shipping ML systems in production
  • Proficient with ML libraries and frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost, as well as Spark
  • Hands-on experience in designing, training, and evaluating machine learning models
  • Hands-on experience in productionizing and deploying models at scale
  • Hands-on experience in orchestrating data pipelines and efficiently leveraging large-scale datasets
  • Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across teams and contribute to peers' success
  • Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility and an entrepreneurial mindset

Preferred qualifications

  • MS or PhD degree in ML/AI or a related field (e.g., math, physics, statistics, computer science)
  • Experience in fintech, open banking, or financial data domains
  • Experience with NLP, LLMs, or text classification at scale
  • Experience in adversarial or noisy-data domains such as fraud detection, risk modeling, or data quality
  • Proven track record of building and deploying ML systems that have effectively solved ambiguous business problems
  • Experience with deep learning architectures, including transformers

Skills

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • XGBoost
  • Spark
  • NLP
  • LLMs
  • Deep Learning
  • Transformers

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