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.
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 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer - Backend/Platform Agentic AI Senior Software Engineer focused on building and operating a first-party AI platform with agentic, conversational, and generative AI capabilities for enterprise analytics products. The role involves end-to-end development of agentic AI systems, defining technical direction, building AI-enabled services, and ensuring production-grade infrastructure, scalability, reliability, and adherence to governance and Responsible AI standards within a regulated environment. | Agent | 8 |
| Software Engineer II - Backend/Platform Agentic AI Software Engineer II - Backend/Platform Agentic AI role at Mastercard, focused on building and operating a first-party AI platform for analytics products. The role involves writing code daily, owning components end-to-end, and shipping production-grade AI-enabled services within a multi-tenant, customer-facing platform. Key responsibilities include implementing agentic workflows, integrating LLM-powered capabilities, and operating AI systems in production. |
| Agent |
| 8 |
| Lead Technical Program Manager Lead Technical Program Manager for an internal AI & Decision Product Enablement platform that powers intelligent, data-driven decision-making across market-facing financial products. The role involves driving execution of AI-driven and agent-based solutions, ensuring alignment between product, engineering, and finance stakeholders, and delivering high-impact capabilities. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their B&MI Technology Development team. This role focuses on delivering AI-driven capabilities by building and owning Java services and APIs that deliver AI-powered features, and developing/productionizing AI components in Python. The role involves implementing and operating AI systems in production, managing the full lifecycle from design to deployment, and mentoring other engineers. It blends deterministic systems engineering with AI engineering for probabilistic systems. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer at Mastercard AI & Decision Product Enablement (DPE) focused on leading architectural design and engineering excellence for enterprise-scale, high-throughput, low-latency real-time AI inferencing and decisioning platforms. The role involves deploying AI models through automated pipelines, accelerating model operations, and pioneering agentic AI capabilities, with a strong emphasis on scalability, reliability, and security for billions of daily transactions. | ServeAgent | 7 |
| Director, AI Product Definition & Execution Director to redefine and modernize the Product Management Technical (PMT) operating model by applying an AI-first lens to how product intent is shaped, refined, and delivered to engineering. This role will redesign how product ideas become buildable software by owning the operating model, the PMT practices, decision frameworks, and AI-enabled workflows that drive clarity, speed, and predictability across the engineering organization. Success will be measured by improved delivery outcomes, higher backlog readiness, reduced iteration churn, fewer clarification cycles, stronger engineering trust, and more predictable execution. | Agent | 7 |
| Director Product Management - AI Strategy & Solutions Delivery Director of Product Management responsible for AI strategy and solutions delivery within Mastercard's global digital and authentication network. The role focuses on bridging technical AI delivery with commercial business outcomes, moving AI from pilots to core operations like fraud prevention and agentic commerce. Key responsibilities include developing the AI roadmap, overseeing AI model deployment, identifying AI use cases, defining data requirements for model training, establishing AI governance, and partnering with various teams to integrate AI features. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Director of Data Science (AdTech) Director of Data Science for Mastercard's AdTech platform, focusing on leading ML initiatives for advertising products like targeting, bidding, ranking, and attribution. The role involves strategy, development, deployment, and mentorship, with a strong emphasis on production systems and ethical AI. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer for Mastercard's Global File Transfer platform, focusing on building and operating a secure, high-performance data movement system. The role involves modernizing engineering practices, including the adoption of AI-assisted development tools, and ensuring platform reliability, security, and operability. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on driving technology, platforms, and engineering practices within Mastercard's Business & Market Insights (B&MI) organization. The role involves improving CI/CD, designing reusable frameworks, leading modernization efforts with cloud-native technologies and AI-assisted engineering, and building scalable applications. It emphasizes technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration to accelerate software delivery and enhance developer productivity. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II at Mastercard designs and codes artificial intelligence, cloud, and machine learning platforms that provide mission-critical insights to many of the world’s leading organizations and governments. The role involves developing high-performing, highly scalable software solutions and products with speed and agility as part of a small team. | — | 5 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer for Mastercard's real-time Decision Management Platform, responsible for scoring and approving payment transactions. The role is hands-on, involving coding, architecture, and using AI coding tools to enhance engineering quality and speed. Focuses on building, scaling, and improving the platform's performance, reliability, and security. | — | 5 |
| Manager, Software Engineering Manager of Software Engineering for the Mastercard Authentication team, focusing on enhancing and modernizing payments services. The role involves leading multiple scrum teams, defining and delivering strategic initiatives, providing technical leadership in Java, microservices, and event-based applications, and ensuring the development of a global technology platform with a focus on performance, security, and reliability. A key aspect is driving AI augmented development and integrating AI agents with enterprise tools. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to design and build the next-generation Decision Management Platform, a real-time system that scores and approves billions of payment transactions. The role involves writing production code, designing distributed systems, and using AI coding tools to improve development speed and quality. Responsibilities include making technical calls on frameworks and libraries, improving system performance and reliability, and mentoring junior engineers. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer role focused on building and leading the next-generation Decision Management Platform at Mastercard. This role involves hands-on design, coding, and prototyping of core platform capabilities, with a strong emphasis on leveraging AI-assisted development tools and real-time AI inferencing to improve product effectiveness, system resilience, and cost efficiency within the fintech domain. The engineer will also contribute to shaping the AI & DPE technology strategy and improving developer experience through AI-powered workflows. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to design and build a next-generation Decision Management Platform for real-time payment transaction scoring and approval. The role involves writing production code, using AI coding tools, and working with distributed systems at high throughput and low latency. It also includes integrating LLMs and agentic patterns into decisioning systems. | ServeAgent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to design and build a next-generation Decision Management Platform for real-time payment transaction scoring and approval. The role involves writing production code, using AI coding tools, and working with distributed systems at high throughput and low latency. It also includes integrating LLMs and agentic patterns into decisioning systems. | ServeAgent | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II at Mastercard to design and build the next-generation Decision Management Platform, a real-time system for scoring and approving payment transactions. The role involves writing production code, designing distributed systems, and utilizing AI coding tools to improve development speed and quality. Responsibilities include making technical calls on frameworks, sharing AI tool usage patterns, and improving system performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency. The role also involves cross-team collaboration, mentoring, and interviewing. | Serve | 5 |
| Director, Agentic Commerce - NAM Product Management Product management leader to drive the rollout of Mastercard's Agentic Commerce Solutions in North America, influencing the entire product lifecycle from ideation to commercialization, creating compelling consumer payment experiences, and driving adoption with partners. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal, Technical Program Manager This role is for a Principal Technical Program Manager at Mastercard, focused on driving product outcomes for Authorization and Authentication Decisioning teams within the AI & Decision Product Enablement (AI & DPE) group. The role involves leading large-scale, cross-functional programs, ensuring alignment across various departments, managing execution plans, mitigating risks, and reporting on delivery status. While the role operates within a group that enables AI/ML-driven products and mentions leveraging AI/automation tools, the core responsibility is program management, not direct AI/ML model development or research. The candidate needs technical proficiency in payments and experience with AI/ML-driven fraud solutions, but the primary function is program leadership. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to lead architecture and design for the next generation Decision Management Platform, focusing on Fraud Rules modernization. Requires expertise in Java, Spring, AWS/PCF, and AI technologies relevant to fraud detection within a financial services context. | Ship | 5 |
| Director, Software Engineering Director of Software Engineering to lead the design and delivery of full-stack applications and data platforms within the Data Analytics and AI Program at Mastercard. This role will partner with product, data, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions that generate measurable customer and business impact. The program is a strategically critical and rapidly evolving initiative, delivering a portfolio of products across Portfolio Optimization, Merchant & Customer Ad Insights, and Location Insights. This is a high-growth area where data, AI, and engineering converge to unlock next-generation capabilities for Mastercard and its customers. The role involves leading a global organization of 25 team members, including 4-5 direct reports, spanning the US, India, and Europe, with significant emphasis on cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder management, and global execution. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Platform Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to support and evolve internal Generative AI (GenAI) platforms and productivity tools. This role focuses on enabling secure, scalable, and governed adoption of GenAI capabilities across the enterprise. You will work closely with platform leads, vendor product groups, and third-party partners to deliver reliable GenAI services, connectors, and tools for internal users. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Principal Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to provide technology leadership and strategic influence for their next-generation Decision Management Platform. This role focuses on leveraging disruptive technologies in real-time AI inferencing and decisioning to improve product effectiveness, business agility, and technical resilience. The engineer will lead architectural design, define service interactions, and partner with leaders to deliver new services. They will also own customer experience, simplify architecture, and drive organization-wide initiatives for software engineering best practices. The role requires experience in senior technical leadership, cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, real-time data-driven platforms including AI/ML inferencing, cloud platforms, API design, data platforms, AI/ML platforms, MLOps, and model deployment. Strong programming skills and experience mentoring engineers are also essential. | Serve | 5 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer for the Accelerators group, focusing on CI/CD, platform scalability, and developer experience. Drives modernization through AI adoption and AI-first engineering initiatives, mentors engineers, and contributes to architectural decisions. Requires strong full-stack, cloud, and DevOps experience. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer The Senior Software Engineer will work on the AI & DPE organization's DMP platform, a cloud-native, real-time decisioning and AI inferencing system for fraud detection and enterprise decision management. The role involves hands-on rule authoring, platform modernization, and implementing best practices for high-throughput, low-latency systems, with a focus on AI technologies like Gen AI and LLMs within the fraud domain. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to work on their Identity Solutions Services Platform Engineering team. The role involves developing REST APIs for customer-facing products, leveraging complex machine learning for risk assessment. The engineer will work in an Agile environment, focusing on backend solutions, and will use AI-assisted tools for software development tasks. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer at Mastercard, focusing on building Open Finance solutions. The role involves full-stack development with Java and React, designing and delivering data products, and collaborating across teams. Experience with AI coding assistants and prompt engineering for code generation is mentioned. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Data Architecture Mastercard is seeking a Principal Software Engineer, Data Architecture to define and evolve their global enterprise data architecture. This role involves setting the architectural vision for modernizing data platforms across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments, supporting both batch and real-time use cases. The engineer will act as a senior technical authority, ensuring data is designed, governed, secured, and distributed securely and at scale, while meeting stringent regulatory and performance requirements. The role emphasizes championing Data Mesh principles, establishing architecture standards, and leading the adoption of modern data technologies. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer (Big Data) Mastercard is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join the AI&DPE Data Engineering platform team, responsible for building and evolving large scale backend data systems, real time and batch pipelines, and AI enabled services that power analytics, decisioning, and automation across the organization. This role focuses on Scala/Python/Java, distributed data platforms (Cloudera/Spark), and cloud based architectures, with a strong emphasis on AI agent creation and intelligent automation. | Agent | 5 |
| Vice President, Software Engineering Mastercard is seeking a Vice President of Software Engineering to lead teams and drive enterprise-level strategy for their software engineering experience platform (MSBX), focusing on CI/CD modernization, GitHub SCM governance, GitHub Actions, GitHub Advanced Security, and AI-assisted engineering adoption with guardrails. The role involves overseeing Jenkins pipelines, defining CI/CD guardrails, mentoring engineers, and partnering with various departments to define roadmaps and ensure platform alignment. | — | 5 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer for Mastercard's Portfolio Intelligence team, focusing on advancing their business intelligence platform. The role involves technical leadership in design and architecture, hands-on contribution to real-time applications, mentoring engineers, and guiding the platform's evolution towards AI-driven capabilities. Responsibilities include designing and building large-scale distributed systems, improving CI/CD pipelines, enhancing observability, and leading incident resolution. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Mastercard's Economic Intelligence team seeks a Software Engineer II to design and build data-driven analytical solutions. This role involves developing scalable data systems, optimizing data pipelines, and contributing to ML/analytics capabilities for economic insights. The engineer will work with large-scale data platforms (Hadoop, Databricks) and collaborate with data scientists and engineers to deliver reliable data products. The position is hybrid in Arlington, VA. | — | 5 |
| Manager, Data Strategy Manager for Data Strategy within the Operations, Network and Employee Digital Experience Organization (ONE). Responsibilities include cataloging data sources, adhering to enterprise data strategy, working with engineering teams, and overseeing Data and "AI" projects. The role involves planning, executing, and leading teams of Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Project Managers, utilizing Agile methodologies. Key tasks include developing simpler workflow pathways, defining data strategy policies, building relationships with data teams, writing documentation, communicating strategy to stakeholders, ensuring compliance, and assessing Data and AI Use cases for business viability and ROI. | — | 5 |
| Senior Data Engineer Senior Data Engineer for the AI Ops team, responsible for designing, building, and operating analytics and data engineering solutions that provide operational visibility, insight, and proactive intelligence across enterprise infrastructure, applications, and services. This role focuses on integrating data from diverse operational sources, enabling high-quality dashboards and metrics, and supporting AI-driven operational use cases that improve reliability, performance, and decision-making. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist Mastercard is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to develop and drive data-driven open banking solutions, focusing on affordability/credit decisioning and identity/income verification. The role involves applying data science techniques to large datasets, building interactive dashboards, supporting customer trials, and contributing to team methods for prototyping and governance. Experience with time series, NLP, and solution deployment is required, preferably within financial services. | Data | 5 |
| Manager, Product Development - Fraud Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Product Development - Fraud to detect and reduce fraud, provide tools to mitigate fraud, and educate stakeholders on fraud trends. The role involves analyzing transactional data, developing analytical models and dashboards, and improving fraud detection strategies. This position directly contributes to reducing fraud losses and strengthening the organization's fraud risk framework. | — | 5 |
| Director, Product Management Director of Product Management for Mastercard's Services team, focusing on AI-based credit risk solutions. The role involves leading product roadmap execution, owning the end-to-end product management cycle, and driving new product development leveraging AI platform capabilities and rich data resources for global customer segments. | Ship | 5 |
| Manager, Product Operations - PM Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Product Operations to ensure operational excellence for their digital payments platform (MDES). This role involves managing customer engagement, analyzing incidents, driving platform health, and using data to influence roadmap priorities. The position requires strong collaboration with Product, Engineering, Ops, and Support teams, focusing on reliability, quality, and resiliency. The role will also explore AI/ML for operational improvements. | — | 5 |
| Vice President, Data Engineering Mastercard is seeking a Vice President of Data Engineering to lead the transformation of their enterprise data ecosystem and unlock the full value of their data assets. This role will drive innovation in managing, storing, governing, and accessing large-scale data across public cloud and on-premise environments, establishing consistent engineering standards and principles. The position involves defining and delivering modern, scalable, and secure data and AI platforms on AWS and Azure, focusing on platform strategy, enterprise governance, engineering excellence, and best practices. It's a hands-on technical leadership role with deep involvement in data engineering and architecture design and implementation, with the potential to build and lead a team. | — | 2 |
| Vice President, Software Engineering - DMP Mastercard is seeking a Vice President of Software Engineering to lead the Authorization Decisioning domain within the Decision Management program. This role will define and drive the engineering vision and strategy, lead the delivery of complex initiatives including AI/ML inference and data pipelines, and ensure platform reliability, performance, scalability, security, and compliance in a regulated, mission-critical environment. The role requires strong leadership in building and scaling high-performing teams and ensuring operational excellence. | — | 1 |
| Senior Software Engineer II Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II, who will be responsible for building and optimizing data platforms, pipelines, and systems to support advanced analytics, machine learning, and business insights. The role involves collaborating with engineering, product, and analytics teams to deliver reliable data solutions. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain complex software solutions within the Decision Management Program (DMP). This role involves technical leadership, mentoring, and contributing to the full software development lifecycle, with a focus on code quality, system design, and agile processes. The engineer will automate build/operate/run aspects, drive service integrations, and mentor junior team members. A strong background in Java, software development processes, and performance tuning is required, along with a demonstrated track record with AI. | — | 0 |
| Lead, Enterprise Operations - Messaging This role leads the enterprise messaging platform, focusing on Microsoft Exchange Online, Proofpoint, and Microsoft Purview. It ensures secure, compliant, and highly available messaging services, drives platform modernization, improves customer experience, and strengthens security posture. Responsibilities include end-to-end ownership, security and compliance implementation, incident response, vendor management, and automation. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer II Mastercard is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of their applications supporting global operations. The role involves being a production readiness steward, fostering developer ownership, supporting the build phase with operational design, automation, capacity planning, and monitoring. Responsibilities include daily operations with a focus on triage, root cause analysis, blameless post-mortems, risk management, compliance, and aligning product priorities with operational needs. The engineer will work independently on projects, support high-availability systems, assist in evaluating operational needs, contribute to automation, troubleshoot system issues, document procedures, and participate in quality checks. | — | 0 |
| Senior Service Management Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer/Certificate Lifecycle Management Engineer to ensure platform stability and health. This role involves managing certificate renewals, supporting services before go-live, analyzing ITSM activities, and ensuring adherence to operational and security standards. The engineer will foster developer ownership, implement automation, and contribute to fault-tolerant and scalable products within a regulated fintech environment. | — | 0 |
| Principal Systems Engineer Principal Systems Engineer to drive customer experience strategy for the SME Partnerships and Cashflow division. The role involves designing and building cloud-native solutions at global scale, supporting high transaction volumes for a B2B technology platform. Responsibilities include defining architectural vision, developing roadmaps, leading architecture reviews, and providing technical leadership. The role also involves leveraging AI-driven tools to enhance engineering efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Director, Enterprise Operations Director, Enterprise Operations at Mastercard to drive customer experience strategy, lead hybrid teams, and modernize service delivery. Focuses on defining global support strategy, leading the shift to proactive and digital-first support through automation and self-service, and advancing continuous improvement using analytics and emerging technologies. Ensures global service delivery excellence, provides executive insights, and develops a high-performing workforce. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Platform Engineering - Big Data Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering - Big Data Engineering role at Mastercard. This position leads a team responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and resilient platform infrastructure, focusing on Big Data Engineering. The role involves hands-on technical leadership, people management, driving adoption of modern engineering practices like IaC, container platforms, CI/CD, and microservices, and fostering a collaborative team environment. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II on the Decision Management Program (DMP) team at Mastercard, focusing on customer experience strategy by working with advanced decisioning and intelligence platforms. The role involves the full software development lifecycle, troubleshooting, optimization, and collaboration within an Agile Scrum team. | — | 0 |