Job brief: Machine Learning Engineer, Transaction Risk

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Stripe's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-10 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-10.
• The apply link opens stripe.com, the address Stripe's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

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• Pay: Not published
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Seattle, New York City · US
• Posted: 2026-11-10

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The posting asks for 5+ years of experience.

Must have

• We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role.
• 5+ years of experience developing, evaluating, and deploying machine learning models in a production environment.

Conditions

• Experience owning the operational health of critical ML systems, including on-call, incident response, and migrations.

Main duties

• Lead the design and delivery of ML projects end to end, from framing the problem and sizing the opportunity through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Build, train, evaluate, and deploy models that detect fraud and abuse across Stripe’s global network, and own the production systems they run on.
• Investigate emerging fraud and abuse patterns, decide where ML can have the most impact, and quickly turn those insights into shipped protections.
• Design features, datasets, and evaluation strategies for noisy, delayed, and adversarial environments, and set the bar for experimental rigor.
• Make sound architecture and modeling tradeoffs between model quality, legitimate-user impact, latency, reliability, and operational cost.

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs across the U.S.: $152k a year (2,928 listings, 117 employers). This listing does not publish pay to compare.
• Across Stripe's 80 open listings, 13% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Stripe hires

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