Senior ML Engineer- Cloud AI Platform

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.

Progress starts with you.

Ready to make a global impact by industrializing AI?

Visa AI as a Service (AIaS) operationalizes the delivery of AI and decision intelligence to ensure their ongoing business values. Built with composable AI capabilities, privacy-enhancing computation, and cloud native platforms, AIaS powers and automates industrialization of data, models, and applications for predictive and generative AI. Combined with strong 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 space, learn fast, and make big impacts, Visa AI as a Service is an ideal place for you!

This role is for a Sr. ML Engineer – Cloud AI Platform, with a strong development background, whose primary objective will be to extend our AI as a Service platform to the Public Cloud, Multi-Cloud, and On-Premises environments while enhancing and optimizing our existing codebase and development procedures, as well as developing new solutions. We are seeking a talented professional with a solid background in public cloud, multi-cloud, on-premises, and AI/ML production systems. This role offers ample opportunities for learning and growth, and the chance to be part of delivering the next big thing for our AI as Services team. 

If you are passionate about cloud technology, AI, and machine learning, and are excited about making a significant impact, we would love to hear from you.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. 

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD).
• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD).
• 2 years of related experience with AWS, GCP, preferably in an AI/ML production environment.
• Strong development experience in one or more the following programming languages: Rust, Java or C++
• Any experience with Reinforcement Learning is highly preferred.
• Hands-on experience with model inference engines such as TensorFlow Serving, Triton, or other AI accelerators.
• Development experience in Python is a nice to have.
• Experience in building large scale distributed high performance system in payments or other domains.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

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 will require 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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories 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 $130,700.00 to $202,300.00 USD per year, 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 bonus and equity. Visa has 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 Wellness Program.