Senior Machine Learning Engineer (research Scientist) - Data Foundation & Ai
Plaid
San Francisco, United States
On-site
Applied research on foundation models
Design model architectures
Pretraining objectives and fine-tuning strategies
The Data Foundation and AI team builds and maintains the shared machine learning and AI infrastructure that powers capabilities across Plaid’s product suite
Job Summary
The Data Foundation and AI team builds and maintains the shared machine learning and AI infrastructure that powers capabilities across Plaid’s product suite.
As a Senior Research Scientist on the Data Foundation and AI team, you will lead applied research on Plaid’s foundation model by designing model architectures, pretraining objectives, and fine-tuning strategies that generalize across a wide range of downstream product use cases.
You will also build and maintain end-to-end production machine learning systems, including training pipelines, model serving infrastructure, feature engineering, and monitoring.
Matching Summary
The Data Foundation and AI team builds and maintains the shared machine learning and AI infrastructure that powers capabilities across Plaid’s product suite.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Applied research on foundation models
Design model architectures
Pretraining objectives and fine-tuning strategies
Build and maintain production ML systems
Develop robust evaluation frameworks
Nice-to-have
Empowering financial transformation
Leveraging unique financial network data
General-purpose representations for downstream use cases