Currently tracking 3 active AI roles, down 63% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $156k–$265k (avg $211k).
Mastercard currently has 16 active job listings related to artificial intelligence. The majority of these roles, 50%, are focused on serving infrastructure. Engineering is the primary function for these AI positions, with the United States being the top hiring country. Frequent technical tags include model serving, agent orchestration, and inference infrastructure, suggesting a focus on deploying and managing AI models. In the last 30 days, Mastercard has posted 23 new AI roles, representing a 667% increase from the previous 30-day period.
Mastercard currently has 11 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Senior Software Engineer (3), Foundry R&D Software Engineer II, Lead Software Engineer, Lead Technical Program Manager, Manager, Software Engineering. Most positions are in Engineering.
Mastercard's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (45%), serving infrastructure (36%), application (18%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Mastercard is hiring AI talent in: United States (7 roles), Ireland (3 roles), Singapore (1 role).
Job postings at Mastercard most frequently reference: model serving, inference infra, agent orchestration, rag, guardrails.
In the past 30 days, Mastercard has posted 5 new AI-related roles. That is a -79% change versus the prior 30 days (24 → 5).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic AI - Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to join the Agentic AI Engineering team, focusing on applying Generative and Agentic AI to real products, platforms, and developer workflows. The role involves building tooling, services, and reusable patterns to enable experimentation, validation, and scaling of AI-enabled solutions across Mastercard. Requires strong engineering fundamentals, a product-building mindset, and practical understanding of AI systems. | Agent | 8 |
| Foundry R&D Software Engineer II Software Engineer to join the Mastercard Foundry Research and Development team in Dublin. The role involves designing and implementing innovative capabilities using AI Tooling, working in an agile team, and researching alternative technical solutions. The team focuses on developing innovative products delivered at scale, shaping the future of commerce. | Agent |
| 5 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer to drive the architecture, design, and development of a next-generation experimentation platform, incorporating Generative AI (GenAI) into software products and/or the software development lifecycle. Focus on building advanced, cloud-native services and modern frameworks on AWS/Azure, leveraging Databricks and Spark for data analytics and transformations. Role involves technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and ensuring high engineering standards for scalability, performance, security, and reliability. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to architect, build, and operate the API platform that securely exposes foundation model capabilities across the organization. This role is critical to enabling safe, scalable, and compliant adoption of generative AI and advanced analytics across Mastercard products and services. | ServeAgent | 5 |
| Lead Software Engineer (Backend / Platform – Agentic AI) Lead Software Engineer for Mastercard's Agentic AI platform, focusing on developing high-performance, high-volume backend solutions for real-time AI-driven decisioning. The role involves full systems development lifecycle, mentoring engineers, ensuring operational excellence, and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver scalable and secure AI-powered products within the payments industry. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Architecture Principal Software Engineer (Architecture) to lead architecture for a service group in Mastercard's virtual card platform for Corporate Solutions. This role is pivotal in driving engineering excellence, scaling delivery capabilities, and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. You will be responsible for aligning architecture and engineering strategy with business goals, mentoring high-performing teams, and ensuring the successful delivery of complex software solutions. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer for Mastercard's Data & Services team, focusing on advanced analytics programs like Credit Risk, Portfolio Optimization, and Ad Insights. The role involves leading a team to design and build full-stack web applications and data pipelines, enhancing customer experience with new UIs, API-based data publishing, and scalable big data processes. The team works in a fast-paced, agile environment, contributing to the design, build, and testing of features, from intuitive UIs to backend data models and data flows. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard in Dublin, Ireland. This role focuses on leading software engineering projects, developing and delivering enhanced software solutions, and ensuring team activities meet SLA requirements. Responsibilities include collaborating with partners, contributing to strategy, developing technical plans and architecture proposals, performing Proofs of Concept, managing project lifecycles, defining quality metrics, leading QA/QC processes, coordinating offshore development, mentoring team members, and ensuring compliance with standards and audit requirements. Experience in delivering secure solutions in the Financial Services Sector is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer for Mastercard's Commercial Connect API team, focusing on building a global B2B technology platform for managing business payments. The role involves designing, developing, and deploying Java microservices with a strong emphasis on microservices architecture, scalable database development, and cloud platforms. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Software Engineering Manager, Software Engineering responsible for the analysis, design, development, and delivery of software solutions, with a focus on leading and mentoring a team. The role involves a mix of engineering leadership and hands-on technical contribution, guiding the team's transition towards AI-driven and intelligent automation solutions. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Software Engineering Principal Software Engineer to design, build, and operate Mastercard’s File Transfer platforms, which move critical data securely and reliably between Mastercard and its customers worldwide. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on complex platform problems and raising engineering standards. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Treasury Services Principal Software Engineer for Treasury Services at Mastercard, focusing on modernizing data flows and leading the design and delivery of event-driven microservices for the Treasury Management System (TMS). The role involves architecting data integration pipelines, driving platform hardening, defining integration architecture, establishing eventing patterns, and ensuring compliance with financial reporting standards. Requires strong Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and microservices experience, with a proven track record in integrating vendor TMS systems and cross-organizational influence. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer for Mastercard's Decision Management Platform, focusing on developing high-performance, high-volume solutions for fraud detection and cardholder identity validation. The role involves full SDLC ownership, team mentorship, and collaboration across global teams, utilizing Java and related technologies in an Agile environment. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to architect and implement applications, APIs, and data products that leverage big data for business insights. The role involves leading technology approaches for scaled data pipelines, near real-time processing, and regulatory compliance, with a focus on enterprise and credit risk programs. This is a Director-level Individual Contributor role requiring strong technical foundations, leadership, and business acumen. | — | 0 |