PayPal currently has 26 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 46%, are focused on agents, with serving infrastructure and data roles also representing significant portions. Engineering is the primary function for these hires, with the United States being the dominant hiring country. Frequent tech tags include model_serving, agent_orchestration, and inference_infra. In the last 30 days, PayPal has posted 12 new AI roles, representing a 500% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 20 active AI roles, down 49% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $118k–$359k (avg $241k).
PayPal currently has 19 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Sr Machine Learning Engineer (6), Director, Director, ML Engineering & Agentic Systems, Director, Product Management, Lead Product Manager – Risk Decisioning Platform, Machine Learning Engineer. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
PayPal's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (37%), application (26%), data (21%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
PayPal is hiring AI talent in: United States (16 roles), Ireland (3 roles).
Job postings at PayPal most frequently reference: model serving, agent orchestration, recommender systems, inference infra, tool use.
In the past 30 days, PayPal has posted 15 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Principal, Agentic AI This Principal, Agentic AI role at PayPal focuses on leading the strategy, development, and execution of AI-driven autonomous shopping experiences. The role involves spearheading initiatives that leverage agentic AI for anticipating, negotiating, and executing commerce transactions on behalf of users. It requires deep expertise in AI, e-commerce, and digital transformation, with strong leadership in cross-functional collaboration. | Agent | 9 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer Staff Machine Learning Engineer at PayPal in Bengaluru, India, focused on developing and deploying advanced ML models, particularly in Generative AI and Agentic AI, with a strong emphasis on production readiness, fine-tuning, and evaluation within the fintech domain. | AgentPost-train |
| 8 |
| Sr Machine Learning Engineer Senior Machine Learning Engineer at PayPal in San Jose, CA, focusing on developing and deploying scalable ML algorithms for payment fraud detection. Requires a Doctorate or Master's degree with relevant experience in ML frameworks, graph-based ML, and applied research. | Ship | 8 |
| Lead Product Manager Lead Product Manager for AI-powered enterprise generative AI solutions at PayPal. Responsibilities include defining product vision and roadmap, driving adoption, guiding technical decisions on model selection and fine-tuning, and overseeing AI governance and monitoring systems. Requires experience in building and deploying LLM-based features, RAG, fine-tuning, model evaluation, MLOps, and AI governance. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| Director, Director, ML Engineering & Agentic Systems Director of ML Engineering & Agentic Systems at PayPal, focusing on leading teams to deliver LLM-based agentic systems and consumer-facing ML products at scale within the fintech domain. The role involves driving product and technical strategy, defining engineering health objectives, and building ML platform infrastructure. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Sr Machine Learning Engineer This role focuses on designing, developing, and implementing machine learning models and algorithms, with a strong emphasis on LLM agents and multi-agent systems. The engineer will build scalable ML pipelines, deploy models into production, and integrate them into products and services, requiring experience with agentic frameworks, LLM APIs, and evaluation methodologies. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer Principal Machine Learning Engineer at PayPal focused on driving strategic vision and development of ML models and algorithms to solve complex problems, enhance services, build scalable ML pipelines, and deploy models into production to improve customer experiences. The role involves collaboration with data scientists, software engineers, and product teams, with a focus on recommendation systems, search ranking, or personalization at consumer scale. | Ship | 8 |
| Principal Engineer, Agentic AI Principal Engineer, Agentic AI at PayPal, focusing on leading the strategy, development, and execution of AI-driven autonomous shopping experiences. The role involves spearheading initiatives that leverage agentic AI to anticipate, negotiate, and execute commerce transactions on behalf of users, requiring deep expertise in AI, e-commerce, and digital transformation. | Agent | 8 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Agentic AI Staff Software Engineer, Agentic AI at PayPal, focused on leading the strategy, development, and execution of AI-driven autonomous shopping experiences using intelligent digital agents for commerce transactions. Requires deep expertise in AI, e-commerce, and digital transformation, with strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills. Responsibilities include defining ML strategy, leading model development and optimization, data preprocessing, deploying ML solutions, integrating models into products, monitoring performance, and mentoring junior engineers. Requires 8+ years of experience, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, expertise in ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). | Agent | 8 |
| Sr Machine Learning Engineer This role focuses on evaluating and validating high-impact statistical and AI/ML models, ensuring their integrity, soundness, and robustness in alignment with internal Model Risk Management (MRM) Policy and industry standards. The engineer will provide risk oversight on the deployment of sophisticated machine learning models, build scalable systems, architect end-to-end pipelines for data ingestion, model serving, and monitoring, and integrate deep learning and generative AI methods. The role also emphasizes regulatory compliance and ethical AI use within a fintech domain. | Eval GateServe | 7 |
| Sr Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist at PayPal in Chicago, IL, focused on large-scale fraud prevention and risk management. The role involves managing the full lifecycle of data science solutions, from research to production, with a focus on bot mitigation, device intelligence, and evaluating cyber-security technologies. Responsibilities include overseeing platform performance, translating actions into business impact, mentoring team members, and managing a global team of data scientists. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist at PayPal in Chicago, IL, focused on developing and implementing credit risk strategies for PayPal and Venmo credit card programs. The role involves using mathematical, statistical, and data mining methods, including machine learning for model development and deployment, to balance risk and reward, user experience, and financial performance. Responsibilities include automating tracking, testing new data sources, providing insights through monitoring and reporting, and performing operational monitoring. Requires expertise in credit risk management, predictive analytics, experimental design, machine learning, P&L analytics, credit bureau analytics, Python (pandas, numpy, sklearn), SQL (Big Query, Teradata), data visualization tools (Tableau, Amplitude), and database management (Hadoop, Hive, Stampy, Teradata, Big Query). | Post-train | 7 |
| Sr Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist at PayPal in Chicago, IL, focused on developing and implementing real-time fraud detection and risk assessment solutions for Venmo and PayPal platforms. Responsibilities include data analysis, statistical modeling, A/B testing, root cause analysis, and cross-functional collaboration to mitigate fraud and enhance security. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist at PayPal in Chicago, IL, focused on developing and implementing advanced data science models for identity, onboarding, authentication, abuse, and scam detection within the financial technology domain. The role involves leveraging Python, SQL, and BigQuery for risk decisioning, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and applying statistics, machine learning, and AI to fraud detection. Key responsibilities include maintaining loss targets, optimizing risk experience, ensuring data quality, and exploring advanced technologies like AI, ML, and LLMs to evolve risk strategies. The position requires a Master's degree or equivalent with 2 years of experience in applying ML algorithms for fraud detection, developing regression-based default models, conducting large-scale data analysis with SQL/Python/Spark, building data pipelines, deploying models to production, and analyzing transactional data for fraud indicators. | Agent | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer Machine Learning Engineer at PayPal in Austin, TX, focusing on NLP and Generative AI. Responsibilities include gathering, analyzing, and implementing statistical models and AI applications, conducting model validation, and collaborating with various teams. Requires experience with Python, SQL, machine learning model deployment, and Generative AI architectures like LLMs for tasks such as transcription and summarization. | Agent | 7 |
| Manager, Venmo BNPL Credit Risk Strategy Manager for Venmo BNPL Credit Risk Strategy, responsible for developing and implementing credit risk strategies, including approve/decline, exposure limits, and APR decisions. This role involves working with the Lending Machine Learning team to leverage or develop credit risk models, collaborating with engineering and product partners, and ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements. | Post-train | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer Staff Machine Learning Engineer for Global Fraud Prevention team at PayPal. Focus on building data infrastructure, automation, and ML tooling for risk decisioning. Responsibilities include designing and implementing ML data pipelines, ensuring data quality, developing and deploying production solutions, and mentoring junior members. The role aims to improve fraud detection and prevention through data-driven initiatives. | Ship | 7 |
| Lead Product Manager – Risk Decisioning Platform Lead Product Manager for PayPal's Risk Decisioning Platform, focusing on fraud, credit, and compliance. The role involves defining strategy, roadmap, and execution for a platform processing massive signal volumes in milliseconds. Key responsibilities include collaborating with engineering and data science to build scalable solutions, enabling real-time experimentation and rule governance, and driving legacy migration. Experience with scaled platforms like recommendation engines, real-time inference systems, or ML/AI infrastructure is required, with a focus on decisioning, recommendation engines, or real-time scoring. | ServeAgent | 7 |
| Sr Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist at PayPal in Chicago, IL, focused on applying advanced statistical techniques and machine learning models to predict risk and revenue for consumer lending products. The role involves data mining, building valuation frameworks, optimizing credit portfolio performance, and establishing KPI tracking for credit card program health. Requires experience in forecasting, model development/deployment, predictive analytics, experimental design, P&L analytics, and credit risk management using Python and SQL. | Post-train | 7 |
| Sr Machine Learning Engineer Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at PayPal focused on designing, developing, and implementing ML models and algorithms for various applications, including recommender systems and ranking. The role involves building scalable ML pipelines, deploying models into production, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance services and customer experiences. Requires experience with ML frameworks, cloud platforms, and production ML systems. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Staff ML Scientist, Agentic AI Staff ML Scientist focused on leading the strategy, development, and execution of AI-driven autonomous shopping experiences using agentic AI. The role involves developing and optimizing ML models, preprocessing data, deploying solutions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager, Agentic AI Principal Product Manager for Agentic AI at PayPal, responsible for establishing product vision and strategy, influencing the roadmap, and building innovative and trustworthy AI products. The role involves deep experience with LLMs, autonomous agents, multi-step reasoning, AI workflow automation, and agentic AI concepts, with a focus on scaling these products in a regulated fintech environment. Key responsibilities include defining product strategy, influencing architecture, championing customer experience, and establishing best practices for AI governance and evaluation. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer, SMB &FS Principal Software Engineer at PayPal focused on architecting AI-native commerce capabilities, including agentic commerce and intelligent payment orchestration, for SMB and Financial Services platforms. The role involves leading the technical vision, cloud-native migration, and setting platform standards for large-scale distributed systems in a regulated fintech environment. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr Machine Learning Engineer Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design, train, and deploy AI agents for regulatory analytics, data governance, and audit automation in a fintech context. The role involves building intelligent agents to interpret regulatory requirements, validate risk data, and support reporting processes. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Engineer, Agentic Systems Principal Engineer role focused on building agentic systems, likely involving LLM-based agents, multi-agent orchestration, and tool-use frameworks within the fintech domain. The role emphasizes setting technology roadmaps, influencing senior executives, and mentoring engineers. | Agent | 7 |
| Manager, AI Audit Innovation Manager role focused on designing, developing, and deploying AI-powered solutions and automation frameworks for the Global Internal Audit team. This involves translating audit objectives into technical solutions, managing AI initiatives end-to-end, ensuring secure and responsible integration with enterprise governance and regulatory standards, and evaluating emerging AI/ML/LLM technologies. The role requires hands-on AI engineering experience, building AI agents and automation frameworks, and integrating AI tools with enterprise systems. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr Staff Machine Learning Engineer Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer at PayPal responsible for the strategic direction and execution of machine learning projects, including building scalable ML pipelines, ensuring data quality, and deploying models into production environments to drive business insights and improve customer experiences. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Experience Designer - Agentic Checkout Principal Experience Designer to define and lead the creation of AI-augmented and autonomous user experiences for digital payments, focusing on how customers shop and interact with AI agents. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr Machine Learning Engineer Senior Machine Learning Engineer at PayPal focused on validating, overseeing, and ensuring the risk and compliance of ML/AI models in production across various fintech domains like credit, fraud, and marketing. The role involves model development, data analysis, deployment, and performance monitoring, with a strong emphasis on risk management and regulatory adherence. | Ship | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer Machine Learning Engineer at PayPal focused on developing, validating, and deploying ML models for fraud detection, credit underwriting, and marketing analytics. The role involves ensuring data quality, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and adhering to model risk management and responsible AI principles within a regulated fintech environment. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI at PayPal, focused on leading the development and execution of AI-driven autonomous shopping experiences using intelligent digital agents that anticipate, negotiate, and execute commerce transactions. Requires expertise in AI, e-commerce, and ML model deployment. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer Staff Machine Learning Engineer at PayPal focused on designing, developing, and implementing advanced ML models and algorithms. The role involves building scalable ML pipelines, ensuring data quality, and deploying models into production environments to drive business insights and improve customer experiences. Requires expertise in ML frameworks and cloud platforms. | Serve | 7 |
| Staff Data Scientist Staff Data Scientist at PayPal in Chicago, IL, focused on leading Data Science initiatives within the Pricing Optimization team. The role involves analyzing large datasets, developing machine learning models for pricing and merchant engagement, designing experimentation frameworks for pricing sensitivity, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to influence pricing decisions. Requires a Bachelor's degree and 6 years of experience, with specific skills in Python, SQL, statistical analysis, pricing science, causal impact modeling, supervised/unsupervised learning, and experimentation design. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist at PayPal in Chicago, IL, focusing on developing and implementing advanced data science models and algorithms for financial data. The role involves deep-dive analyses, A/B testing, financial projections, and identifying new opportunities using data analytics. Responsibilities include collaborating with stakeholders, mentoring junior data scientists, and ensuring data quality. Requires a Master's degree or equivalent with 2 years of experience, or a Bachelor's degree with 5 years of experience, with specific skills in machine learning on financial data, default modeling, SQL/SAS, PySpark/Spark, AWS, Snowflake, Python, Tableau, and Agile methodologies. | Ship | 5 |
| Sr Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis Sr Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis at PayPal in San Jose, CA. This role involves identifying business levers, performing analyses using AI tools, financial modeling, and communicating findings to stakeholders. Requires SQL, Python, R, Essbase, SAP S4Hana, Excel, PowerPoint, Think-cell, Machine Learning techniques, consumer forecasting, quantitative assessment of model output, data manipulation, finance planning for payment products, and experience in a payment processing company. Must be able to translate complex concepts and present to senior leaders. | — | 5 |
| Sr Software Engineer This role focuses on data analysis, reporting, and data modeling within a fintech context, utilizing tools like Apache Airflow and SQL. While AI/ML is listed as a special skill requirement, the core responsibilities revolve around data processing, visualization, and reporting, suggesting an adjacent use of AI/ML rather than core development. | — | 5 |
| Director, Product Management This Director of Product Management role at PayPal focuses on defining and executing the product strategy for an AI Assistant. The role involves leading product teams, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, influencing architectural roadmaps, and ensuring product profitability. It emphasizes customer experience, data-driven decision-making, and staying ahead of AI trends and advancements within the fintech domain. | Ship | 5 |
| Sr Product Manager - CS/Agentic AI Product Manager role focused on customer service experiences, with an emphasis on applying agentic AI to improve these experiences. The role involves owning product strategy, prioritizing backlogs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Experience with customer service software and FinTech is preferred. | Agent | 5 |
| Sr Manager, Product Management Product Management role focused on PayPal's Compliance Investigations Platform, aiming to improve investigator productivity, case quality, and regulatory compliance using AI/ML. The role involves defining platform roadmaps, partnering with various teams, and establishing measurement frameworks for platform health. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager – Risk Decisioning Platform Product Manager for PayPal's Risk Decisioning Platform, focusing on real-time fraud, credit, and compliance decisions. The role involves gathering requirements, partnering with engineering and data science, and managing a core platform pillar that processes massive signal volumes in milliseconds. Experience with scaled platforms like recommendation engines or ML inference infrastructure is desired. | Serve | 5 |
| Sr Data Scientist - CRM and Media Analytics Sr. Data Scientist role focused on CRM and Media Marketing Analytics at PayPal. The role involves leading analytical strategy and execution across customer relationship management, paid media, and marketing effectiveness, uncovering insights into acquisition, engagement, and retention. It requires developing and implementing advanced data science models, collaborating with stakeholders, driving best practices, and mentoring junior scientists. Experience with statistical modeling, machine learning, and experimentation applied to marketing and media problems is essential. | Data | 5 |
| Sr Data Scientist - CRM and Media analytics Sr. Data Scientist role focused on CRM and Media Marketing Analytics at PayPal, leading analytical strategy and execution across customer relationship management, paid media, and marketing effectiveness. The role involves developing and implementing advanced data science models, uncovering insights into customer acquisition, engagement, and retention, and translating complex data into actionable recommendations. It requires strong analytical expertise, technical rigor in data science, and compelling storytelling to influence stakeholders. | Data | 5 |
| Staff Experience Designer, Design Systems This role is for a Staff Experience Designer focused on design systems at PayPal (Venmo). The designer will collaborate with designers, engineers, and product managers to maintain and evolve the design system. A key aspect of the role involves leveraging AI-powered tools to enhance design workflows, including generative design, automated token management, component scaffolding, and AI-assisted documentation, to improve speed, consistency, and scalability. The role requires significant experience in design systems and proficiency in design tools, with a focus on user-centered design principles and accessibility. | — | 5 |
| Sr Staff Content Designer Senior Staff Content Designer at PayPal focusing on AI-native content design, content strategy for agentic surfaces, and shaping how AI investments are framed for users. This role involves building infrastructure and governance for content design across complex consumer product surfaces, influencing senior leadership, and mentoring other designers. | Agent | 5 |
| Sr Product Manager Product Manager role focused on leveraging data for product insights and requirements, with experience in AI-enabled or agentic product experiences within the fintech domain. The role involves collaboration with various teams and data analysis for decision-making. | — | 5 |
| Director, Product Marketing - Agentic Commerce The Director of Product Marketing will lead PMM for PayPal's agentic commerce strategic bet, defining and scaling product marketing for a new class of AI-powered commerce experiences. This role involves shaping the future of how people and businesses buy, sell, and get paid in the agentic era, establishing PayPal as foundational infrastructure for agent-driven experiences. | — | 5 |
| Sr Associate, Corporate Strategy This role is for a Senior Associate in Corporate Strategy at PayPal. The primary focus is on identifying and developing new strategic bets and business concepts within the rapidly evolving payments landscape, with a particular emphasis on how AI is impacting commerce. The role involves market sizing, competitive analysis, business case development, and collaborating with various teams to bring strategic initiatives to life. While the role uses AI tools and considers AI's impact on commerce, it does not involve building AI models or systems directly. | — | 5 |
| Manager, Data Analytics Manager of Data Analytics role at PayPal, focusing on delivering data-driven insights and solutions for operational SMB business reviews. The role involves managing a team of data analysts, overseeing project delivery, ensuring data quality, and collaborating with business units to prioritize initiatives. Requires strong analytics background in FinTech, proficiency in SQL and Python, experience supporting AI enablement, and strong data storytelling and stakeholder management skills. | — | 5 |
| Data Analytics Lead This role leads a team of data analysts to deliver data-driven insights and solutions for operational SMB business reviews, focusing on analytics support, ensuring project execution, recommending actionable steps, and aligning team outputs with business priorities within the FinTech industry. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager - Credit Card Senior Product Marketing Manager for PayPal's Credit Card Acquisition team. This role involves developing and executing marketing strategies, analyzing business trends, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in credit card acquisition funnels, segmentation, messaging, and positioning for financial products. Experience in a regulated environment and with AI tools for marketing acceleration is preferred. | — | 5 |