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 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 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to join the Mastercard Foundry R&D team, focusing on building scalable backend systems and APIs for generative AI use cases. The role involves integrating pre-trained models, ensuring performance and reliability of AI services, and collaborating with data science and ML teams to productionize AI capabilities. Requires strong backend engineering experience, familiarity with AI/ML integration, and cloud deployment. | Serve | 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 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role at Mastercard focused on designing and building 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. It emphasizes hands-on experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems, cloud-native architectures, and AI/ML systems including LLM integration and model serving. | Serve | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer 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. The engineer will also work on improving platform performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency, and mentor junior engineers. | Serve | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |