Staff Machine Learning Scientist

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Visa U.S.A. Inc., a Visa Inc. company, needs a Staff Machine Learning Scientist (multiple openings) in Austin, TX to:

• Work with a team to conduct world-class research on data analytics and contribute to the long-term research agenda in large-scale data analytics and machine learning, as well as deliver innovative technologies and insights to Visa's strategic products and business.
• Develop AI/Machine learning models to detect credit card information attacks.
• Formulate business problems as technical data problems while ensuring key business drivers are captured in collaboration with product stakeholders.
• Work with product engineering to ensure implementability of solutions.
• Deliver prototypes and production code based on need.
• Experiment with in-house and third-party data sets to test hypotheses on relevance and value of data to business problems.
• Build needed data transformations on structured and un-structured data. Build and experiment with modeling and scoring algorithms.
• Develop custom algorithms and use packaged tools based on machine learning, data mining and statistical techniques.
• Devise and implement methods for adaptive learning with controls on effectiveness, methods for explaining model decisions where necessary, model validation, and A/B testing of models.
• Devise and implement methods for efficiently monitoring model effectiveness and performance in production.
• Devise and implement methods for automation of all parts of the predictive pipeline to minimize labor in development and production.
• Contribute to development and adoption of shared predictive analytics infrastructure.
• Position reports to the Austin, TX office and may allow for partial telecommuting.

Basic Qualifications:

• Employer will accept a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Engineering or related field.
• Machine learning
• Deep learning
• Python programming
• Advanced statistics
• Scala programming
• Spark programming
• Graph learning
• Functional data analysis

Worksite: Austin, TX

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 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Travel Requirements: This position does not require travel.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $130,100.00 USD to $208,300.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.