Plaid aims to improve how people interact with their finances by building tools and experiences for developers, enabling thousands of companies and millions of people to connect financial accounts to apps and services. The Data Foundation & AI team specifically focuses on building advanced ML/AI models and applications to deliver intelligence at scale, making AI development faster, more reliable, and more impactful for the next generation of financial services.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience training, deploying, and scaling ML/AI models in production environments.
- Strong experience with distributed systems and ML operations — from large-scale training to low-latency serving and monitoring.
- Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch), with the ability to implement and optimize complex models.
- Hands-on experience building or scaling ML/AI infrastructure, pipelines, or reusable platforms that support multiple teams.
- Curiosity and drive to experiment with advanced AI techniques (e.g., embeddings, retrieval, generative modeling) while staying grounded in production impact.
- Experience applying ML/AI in fintech or similarly regulated industries is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Building and scaling advanced ML/AI systems that power core Plaid products and applications used by millions of consumers.
- Driving impact at scale by improving distributed training, serving, and ML operations to make Plaid’s AI capabilities faster, more reliable, and more widely available.
- Developing new AI applications that enable innovative product experiences across fintech.
- Tackling 0 to 1 problems where you explore new approaches, as well as scaling 1 to 10 systems for reliability and efficiency.
- Collaborating with some of the strongest MLEs at Plaid in a high-ownership, bottom-up driven team.
- Experimenting with cutting-edge ML and AI techniques while balancing practical productionization and measurable business impact.
Other
- Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment, working with both technical and non-technical partners to drive measurable outcomes.
- We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years.
- We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products.
- Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life.
- Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone.
