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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Director, Software Engineering Director of Software Engineering for Mastercard Foundry R&D in Singapore, leading teams to explore emerging technologies like Generative AI and Agentic Systems, build prototypes, and deliver pilot solutions. The role involves people leadership, technical guidance, and driving innovation in a fast-paced R&D environment. | Agent | 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |