Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments 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 payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

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

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Payments has become a very active/hot area in the last couple of years, creating a strong demand for innovation. This will be a very exciting area in the next 5 to 10 years. Not only is VISA a leader in the payment industry and has been for a long time, but it is also quickly transitioning into a technology company that is fostering an environment for applying the latest technology to solve exciting problems in this area. For a payment system to work well, the risk techniques, performance, and scalability are critical. These techniques and systems can benefit from big data, data mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, & many other advance technologies and in VISA, we have all of these. If you want to be in the exciting payment space, learn fast, and make big impacts, Payment Systems Risk team @ VISA is an ideal place for you!

This position is for a Machine Learning Engineer who will focus on solving business problems using data and machine learning techniques. In this position, you are first a passionate and talented individual who can work in a dynamic environment as a member of Agile Scrum teams.  Your strong technical leadership, problem-solving abilities, coding, testing, and debugging skills is just a start. 

This position will be based in Bangalore, India and reporting to Director of Software Engineering. If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit for both of us.

Essential Functions

• Customize the latest available models in machine learning for various scenarios and integrate them in our product. You would be responsible for the end-to-end solution, from prototyping the models to offline experimentation to production level code that uses these models
• Improve existing data models, data pipelines, featurization and implementing new techniques
• Apply the latest advances in deep learning and machine learning to increase our current models’ performance
• Contribute to the product roadmap and planning
• Contribute to the improvement of our end-to-end platform, including design, development, implementation, testing and debugging
• Work on cross functional teams and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders
• Promote big data innovations and analytic education throughout the Visa organization

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
• 2 years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)

Preferred Qualifications
• 1+ years working experience in machine learning, statistics, or natural language processing (or equivalent research experience)
• Expertise in machine learning spanning supervised and/or unsupervised learning methods and applying ML to real-world problems
• Experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras
• Experience using machine learning libraries or platforms, including Tensorflow, Scikit-Learn, or Spark ML Lib for production or commercial products
• Ability to program in one or more scripting languages such as Python and one or more programming languages such as Java or Scala
• Independent, self-driven person with a high sense of accountability
• Excellent problem solving and data analysis skills. Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, and a great team player
• Proficiency in designing & solving classification/prediction problems
• Proficiency in data manipulation using Spark or Python tools such as Pandas, NumPy etc.

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the country where this job is located are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.