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).
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| Lead Site Reliability Engineer Lead Site Reliability Engineer responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Java, Spring Framework applications. Focuses on production readiness, operational design, automation, capacity planning, monitoring, triage, root cause analysis, and compliance. Fosters developer ownership and resilience, while aligning product priorities with operational needs. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack (Java, Micro-services, React/Angular) Lead Software Engineer for Mastercard's Merchant Acceptance Program, focusing on full-stack development (Java, Microservices, React/Angular) in a Cloud Native, Agile environment. Responsibilities include technical leadership, mentoring, ensuring quality and performance, and driving automation initiatives. Requires strong Java, Spring Boot, and cloud experience. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard's Internal Cloud Platforms team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to maintain and operate cloud platforms and supporting services. The role involves responding to incidents, improving system resiliency through design contributions, and automating repetitive tasks. Responsibilities include creating monitoring systems, writing automation code for issue detection and recovery, and identifying automation for initial responders. Experience with vSphere, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Concourse pipelines, XML Gateways, API technology, and F5 load balancers is required, along with familiarity with multiple cloud vendors. |
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| Senior Software Engineer (Full-stack Node+React) Mastercard's Dynamic Yield is seeking a Full-stack Engineer in Lisbon to build innovative end-user experiences. The role involves designing and implementing scalable real-time systems, analyzing multiple data sources, and writing clean, modular code. Requires 5+ years of backend experience with Node.js and React, strong problem-solving skills, and familiarity with distributed systems, databases (SQL, NoSQL), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), messaging technologies, and AWS. | — | 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 |
| Director, Real Estate Services Director of Real Estate Services at Mastercard, focusing on workplace strategy, capacity management, and optimization across a global portfolio. This role involves leveraging data analytics and workplace technology to drive space planning, design, and operational efficiency, with a focus on AI-enabled initiatives for improved efficiency and scalability. | — | 0 |
| Director, Finance Business Partner Director, Finance Business Partner at Mastercard, focusing on technology infrastructure spend, financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, deal management, contract management, pricing, product management, cost optimization, business case development, and benefit tracking. The role involves managing technology spend, investments, ROI, and prioritization of initiatives, utilizing the Technology Business Management (TBM) framework and tools like Apptio. The position also includes managing a team of financial professionals. | — | 0 |
| Director, Global Advertising Sales Administration & Operations Director, Global Advertising Sales Administration & Operations at Mastercard. This role ensures the advertising sales team has the necessary tools, training, and operational support to succeed. Responsibilities include managing the sales pipeline, developing global standards for advertising content, training the sales team on best practices, managing global priorities, and developing global reporting and presentations. The ideal candidate has experience in sales administration, training, and operations in a global environment, ideally within media/advertising. | — | 0 |
| Director, Accounting Director of Accounting responsible for global HR, Lease, Occupancy, Statutory, and Analytic Accounting Functions. Leads a team of managers, transforms processes using automation, and ensures compliance with policies and controls. Evaluates financial and operational performance and makes recommendations to senior leadership. | — | 0 |
| Sales Manager, Inbound Partnerships Sales Manager, Inbound Partnerships at Mastercard, focused on bringing in partnerships to be referred or resold alongside Mastercard's solutions like identity, chargeback, cyber security, open finance, spend analytics, and loyalty. Responsibilities include strategy development, partner identification and evaluation, managing partner success and growth, engaging in marketing activities, developing joint business plans, and providing market feedback. | — | 0 |
| Associate Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & Transformation Consulting role focused on strategy and transformation for clients, leveraging data and technology solutions to provide insights and recommendations. The role involves client management, workstream management, and developing business recommendations. | — | 0 |
| Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Performance Analytics This role is for a Managing Consultant in Mastercard's Advisors & Consulting Services team, specializing in Performance Analytics. The consultant will lead client engagements, develop analytics strategies using Mastercard and customer data, and leverage data and technology solutions to provide clients with strategic insights and recommendations. The role involves using qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques, enterprise applications, and data visualization tools to synthesize analyses and present clear recommendations. It requires experience in business intelligence, descriptive, predictive, or prescriptive analytics, and proficiency with data analytics software like Python, R, SQL, SAS, and visualization tools like Tableau and Power BI. The role also involves client relationship management, team leadership, and identifying new business development opportunities. | — | 0 |
| Senior Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Performance Analytics Senior Managing Consultant in Mastercard's Advisors & Consulting Services team, focusing on Performance Analytics. This role involves leading client engagements, developing analytics strategies, managing client relationships, and translating data into insights using qualitative and quantitative techniques. Requires experience with data analytics software (Python, R, SQL, SAS), visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI), and big data frameworks (Hadoop, PySpark). | — | 0 |
| Senior Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & Transformation Senior Managing Consultant role within Mastercard's Advisors & Consulting Services, focusing on Strategy & Transformation. This role involves leading client engagements, developing strategies using data and technology, managing senior client relationships, and guiding project teams. The position requires strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills, with experience in consulting, corporate strategy, or business line management. | — | 0 |
| Account Executive (Managing Consultant), Business Development - Restaurants Account Executive (Managing Consultant) for Mastercard Services, focusing on business development and sales within the Restaurant segment. The role involves driving growth of value-added services, managing client relationships with senior executives, and coordinating with internal teams to achieve revenue objectives. | — | 0 |
| Lead Product Manager - Technical Lead Product Manager - Technical for the Cryptographic Security Engineering team, focusing on customer experience strategy for scalable service platforms delivering cryptographic, key management, and certificate management capabilities. | — | 0 |
| Lead Product Management -Technical Lead Product Management - Technical role focused on Mastercard's Authorization Decisioning product within the Decision Management program. This role bridges product marketing and engineering, developing roadmaps and backlogs for software engineers. It requires understanding business drivers, system functionality, architecture, and data flows to translate them into actionable work. The role emphasizes technological savviness, data-intensive application proficiency, and organizational skills for managing inputs within tools like JIRA. | — | 0 |
| Vice President, Technology Risk Management This role is for a Vice President of Technology Risk Management within Mastercard's Payment Networks organization. The primary focus is on leading the Technology Risk and Compliance function, shaping and executing the risk management strategy for a critical and highly regulated technology environment. The candidate will act as a senior risk leader and trusted advisor, ensuring risk management, control assurance, and regulatory compliance are embedded in platform design, build, and operation. The role requires deep payments or financial services technology experience, combined with a strong risk, audit, and compliance background, and the ability to operate credibly at the intersection of engineering, operations, security, and regulation. | — | 0 |
| Director, Customer Onboarding and Partnership Director, Customer Onboarding and Partnership role at Mastercard focused on managing high-risk acquirer performance, fraud prevention, and compliance within the North American region. The role involves training acquirers, educating them on fraud identification and mitigation, providing expertise in risk management, designing reports for performance monitoring, and engaging directly with customers to address issues. It requires extensive experience in fraud management, payment scheme rules, and working with acquirers on fraud and compliance. | — | 0 |
| Sales Manager - Open Finance and Partnerships Sales Manager responsible for building net-new commercial partnerships with Fintechs, digital merchants, and payments providers in the Open Finance space. | — | 0 |
| Sales Director - Emerging Verticals Sales Director role focused on driving growth of value-added services within emerging verticals for Mastercard Services. The role involves leading a sales team, managing strategic accounts, developing client relationships, structuring complex engagements, and delivering compelling pitches. Requires experience in sales leadership, pipeline management, and selling to senior executives. | — | 0 |
| Product Architect- Customer Engagement Mastercard is seeking a Product Architect for their Customer Engagement team to design and develop solutions leveraging Mastercard's product suites and assets, partner with clients to define requirements, and shape the evolution of payment experiences. The role involves managing technical engagements, defining solution strategies, and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to drive Mastercard's digital strategy. | — | 0 |
| Lead Product Manager- Technical Lead Product Manager Technical role at Mastercard, focusing on developing platform/product visions, decomposing business requirements into features, and managing the product roadmap for switching solutions. The role involves working with engineering teams, defining user stories, prioritizing backlogs, and monitoring feature performance and operational health. It emphasizes a 'Working Backwards' approach and collaboration with various stakeholders to deliver innovative and reliable solutions. | — | 0 |
| Director, Solution Engineering Mastercard is seeking a Director, Solution Engineering to lead technical engagements with digital players, OEMs, and chip manufacturers to design and build scalable digital payment solutions. This role involves understanding partner requirements, defining technology roadmaps, designing solutions, and collaborating with internal and external teams to facilitate technical integration and product development. The position requires expertise in consumer payments, digital wallets, tokenization, authentication, and a strong understanding of systems and solutions development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Counsel, Privacy, AI & Data Responsibility Senior Counsel specializing in Privacy, AI & Data Responsibility at Mastercard. This role focuses on ensuring legal compliance and data protection for AI and data-related initiatives within the Identity Solutions business. Responsibilities include analyzing solutions against privacy laws, developing contract structures, monitoring legislative developments, conducting impact assessments, and providing training. Requires a law degree, expertise in GDPR/global data protection laws, and familiarity with financial services and fraud prevention. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Product Management Product Manager for Mastercard's MDES Authorization services, focusing on managing and implementing new product features, becoming a subject matter expert, and ensuring communication with stakeholders regarding changes. | — | 0 |
| Sales Director - Open Finance Solutions for AI Partnerships Sales Director role focused on Open Finance Solutions and AI Partnerships within Mastercard. The role involves building and growing partnerships with digital merchants, platforms, and SaaS providers to accelerate revenue growth by integrating Open Banking services. Responsibilities include developing go-to-market strategies, managing the sales cycle, and capturing client feedback to enhance product and technology management. | — | 0 |
| Director, Field Sales – Mastercard Cybersecurity Solutions (PAC Northwest, Ohio Valley & NY NJ Eastern PA) This is a sales role for cybersecurity solutions, not an AI/ML development role. The job posting mentions AI-driven risk assessments as part of the product offering, but the core function of the role is sales and business development, not building or researching AI models. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Technology Account Management Manager, Technology Account Management role focused on external fintech partners, responsible for the technology and operational relationship, enabling their integration into the payments ecosystem, overseeing new financial institution launches, and representing the Voice of the Customer in product development. Requires strong understanding of payments, cross-functional collaboration, and customer advocacy. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Channel Sales and Partnerships, Fintech Mastercard is seeking a Manager for Channel Sales and Partnerships in the Fintech sector, focusing on payment security and Insights solutions in North America. This is a quota-carrying, revenue-producing role responsible for developing and managing channel and alliance partner relationships throughout the partner lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, revenue activation, and growth. The ideal candidate will have experience in the payments security and data space, strong partnership management skills, and a strategic, commercial mindset. | — | 0 |
| Lead Technical Program Manager Lead Technical Program Manager for the People & Capability Engineering team, driving complex, cross-functional initiatives focused on platform modernization, service integration, and enhanced employee experience within Mastercard's people technology ecosystem. This role requires strong project and program management skills, experience with HR technology systems (Workday preferred), and familiarity with Agile methodologies. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer (Java Backend Developer with experience in designing, developing, coding) Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with experience in designing, developing, and coding software solutions. The role involves defining requirements, developing and testing applications, and providing technical leadership and mentoring. Responsibilities include full systems development lifecycle management, system maintenance, incident problem management, and researching new technologies. The position also requires adherence to quality assurance and control processes, and coordination of offshore development. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II at Mastercard in Pune, India, focused on developing microservices for the Mastercard Payment Networks team using Java, Spring Boot, and Event Driven Architecture within a Cloud Native and Scaled Agile Framework. The role emphasizes Object-Oriented Programming, CI/CD, and adherence to coding best practices in a regulated financial services environment. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer (Java Full Stack Developer with hands on experience in coding, designing, developing, architecture) Lead Software Engineer (Java Full Stack Developer) responsible for leading software engineering projects, creating enhanced software solutions, and ensuring team activities meet SLA requirements. This role involves collaborating with business and technical partners, developing strategic technical plans, creating architecture proposals, and performing Proofs of Concept. The engineer will also partner with Project Managers on implementation, define technical scope, lead Quality Assurance and Control processes, and mentor team members. Experience in delivering secure solutions in the Financial Services Sector is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer role at Mastercard focused on building cloud-native microservices and full-stack applications for the financial ecosystem, emphasizing modern development practices, quality, and security within an Agile environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Test Senior Software Development Engineer in Test responsible for designing and implementing test automation strategies for web applications, system-to-system interfaces, and software solutions within an Agile SCRUM team. Focuses on validating application functionality and performance, API and UI testing, and collaborating with developers to ensure quality. | — | 0 |