Senior Consultant Level - Machine Learning Engineer - Authorization Risk - AI Platform Team

Company Description

Visa is a global leader in digital payments, facilitating over 215 billion payment transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payment network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you become part of a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is a priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone, uplift everyone. Your work will directly impact billions of people around the world – helping to unlock financial access and enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

The payment sector has become a very active area in recent years, sparking a strong demand for innovation. This will be a very exciting field in the next 5 to 10 years. Not only is VISA a leader in the payment industry, but it is also quickly transitioning into a technology company that encourages an environment to apply the latest technology to solve challenging problems in this sector.

AI as a Service (AIaS) brings AI and decision intelligence into operation to ensure their ongoing business values. Built with composable AI capabilities, privacy-conscious computation, and cloud-native platforms, AIaS automates updates to data, models, and applications. Combined with robust AI governance, AIaS optimizes the performance, scalability, interpretability, and reliability of AI models and services. If you want to be in the exciting payment and AI area, learn fast, and make significant impacts, Visa AI as a Service is the ideal place for you!

This position is for a Senior Consultant level Machine Learning Engineer with solid development experience, who will focus on creating new capabilities for Visa AI as a Service while improving our code base and development processes. In this role, you are firstly a passionate and talented developer who can work in a dynamic environment as part of Agile Scrum teams. Your strong technical leadership, problem-solving skills, coding, testing, and debugging abilities are just the beginning. You must be dedicated to filling product backlog and delivering production-ready code. You must be willing to go beyond the routine and be prepared to do a bit of everything.

You will play a key role in the development team, sometimes investigating new requirements and design, sometimes refactoring existing functionality for improved performance and maintainability, but always working on ways to make us more efficient and provide better solutions to our customers. This role suits a self-organized individual with knowledge of web application and web service development. This candidate will engage in hands-on activities, including design, documentation, development, and testing of new functionalities. The candidate must be flexible and willing to switch tasks according to the team's needs.

This position will be based in Austin, TX. If this sounds exciting, we'd love to discuss more about our work culture and environment to see if it's a good fit for both of us.

Essential Functions

• Collaborate with project team members (Product Managers, Architects, Analysts, Software Engineers, Project Managers, etc.) to ensure development and implementation of new data-driven business solutions.
• Lead the development effort from start-to-end for on-time delivery of high-quality solutions that meet requirements, conform to the architectural vision, and comply with all applicable standards. Responsibilities involve all phases of solution development.
• Collaborate with senior technical staff and Project Managers to identify, document, plan contingencies, track, and manage risks and issues until they are all resolved.
• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.
• Coach and mentor junior team members to develop talent within the team.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• PhD degree in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of Machine Learning System Development Experience post-PhD.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expert in cutting-edge areas such as Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Stream Computing, MLOps, In-Memory Computing.
• Proficient in at least one of the following: Golang, Java, Python, or C/C++
• Expert in web service standards and their related patterns (REST, gRPC)
• Expert in developing large-scale, enterprise-class distributed systems or subsystems that require high availability, low-latency, and strong data consistency computing.
• Proficient in developing solutions with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in mind.
• Experience with distributed in-memory computing technologies like Redis.
• Experience with Big Data and general analytics leveraging technologies like Hadoop, Spark, and MapReduce.
• Experience in developing proper metric instrumentation in software components to facilitate real-time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.

Additional Information

Work Hours: Dependent on the department's needs

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position requires the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in-person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment by Visa in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for this position is $138,500.00 to $180,000.00 USD, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for a bonus and equity. Visa offers a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and a Wellness Program.