Machine Learning Engineer, Radar

About the role

Machine Learning Engineer - Radar

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Radar ML team builds the machine learning systems that power Stripe’s Radar fraud and abuse product suite. Our models make real-time decisions across a significant share of internet commerce - helping businesses stop fraud, increase authorization, and grow safely. By turning economy-scale datasets into compelling ML products, the team directly improves customer outcomes and drives meaningful revenue for Stripe.

The team is growing, and expanding into multiple new areas. We are building abuse protections across the full customer life-cycle, adaptive and customizable fraud systems for enterprises, and risk intelligence for 50+ global payment methods.

What you’ll do

You will own major ML systems and initiatives from problem definition to production. You'll find where ML can make the biggest difference, design the approach, build and ship models and the systems around them, and keep improving them as data, users, and attackers change.

Your work may include protecting businesses from abuse across the customer lifecycle, building adaptive and customizable fraud systems for Stripe's largest users, or extending risk intelligence to 50+ global payment methods. Across all of these, you'll use modern approaches, such as transformer models over payment data, graph intelligence across consumers, and LLMs that detect emerging attacks.

You will have opportunities to ship 0→1 products, and to improve mission-critical ML models operating at Stripe scale, often driving several efforts in parallel and setting the technical bar for the team.

Responsibilities

- 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.

- Be the go-to expert for the systems you own: lead incident response for model regressions, reduce operational toil, and make your systems easy for others to build on.