Senior ML Engineer, Payments — Real-Time Fraud & AI

MadeInCart Technologies Pvt Ltd; United States; Remote; USD 191,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a Senior ML Engineer for Payments to craft, deploy, and govern large-scale AI solutions. You will lead end-to-end ML workflows, from data ingestion to live inference, delivering secure and efficient payment experiences.

You will collaborate with product, software, and data science teams to design latency-first services, improve fraud defenses, and push AI innovations into production while mentoring teammates and upholding governance standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience in applied AI/ML.
• MS or PhD in a relevant field.
• Strong programming in Python and Java plus data engineering.
• Hands-on with PyTorch or TensorFlow and scalable ML stacks.
• Experience with LLM workflows, prompt engineering, RLHF, and online/offline testing.

Responsibilities

• Design, train, and deploy large-scale AI applications for payments.
• Build real-time fraud defenses and personalized checkout experiences.
• Collaborate with product, software, and data science to translate requirements into production services.
• Establish model governance, monitoring, and retraining triggers.

Skills

Python

Java

Data engineering

Prompt engineering

Fine-tuning

Education

MS or PhD in relevant field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Spark

Kafka

Kubeflow

Airflow

Job description

Airbnb is seeking a Senior ML Engineer for Payments to craft, deploy, and govern large-scale AI solutions. You will lead end-to-end ML workflows, from data ingestion to live inference, delivering secure and efficient payment experiences.

You will collaborate with product, software, and data science teams to design latency-first services, improve fraud defenses, and push AI innovations into production while mentoring teammates and upholding governance standards.