PayPal is seeking a builder–leader to define the future of AI for Venmo—from personalization and social feed ranking to agentic, LLM-powered experiences that delight users and drive the business
Requirements
- LLMs & Agentic systems: instruction/adapter tuning (LoRA/PEFT), RAG, vector search (FAISS/Milvus/Pinecone), tool use & function calling, multi-agent planners (LangGraph/LangChain), evaluation & guardrails
- Recommendations & Ranking: transformers, sequence models, GNNs, two-tower
- GenAI tooling: leverage state-of-the-art models (open and hosted) and frameworks to accelerate prototyping and delivery
- 8+ years relevant experience (or equivalent) with a Graduate degree
- Previous management experience leading AI/ML teams
- Experience with machine learning models and algorithms
- Experience with large-scale data processing and analysis
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the strategic vision for machine learning initiatives within the team
- Lead the development and optimization of machine learning models
- Oversee the preprocessing and analysis of large datasets
- Deploy and maintain ML solutions in production environments
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate ML models into products and services
- Monitor and evaluate the performance of deployed models, making necessary adjustments
- Mentor and guide junior engineers and data scientists
Other
- Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Previous management experience
- 0- travel required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Graduate degree
