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 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.
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 |
| 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 — Agentic Systems Senior Machine Learning Engineer to build and scale agentic AI systems for risk management in fintech. The role involves end-to-end delivery of production-grade agents and ML models, focusing on improving decision quality, operational efficiency, and system reliability. Requires strong depth in agentic systems and classical AI/ML, with leadership capabilities. | AgentData | 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 Machine Learning Engineer Senior Machine Learning Engineer at PayPal focused on building automation, tools, and infrastructure for fraud prevention and risk decisioning. The role involves transforming data, designing and deploying advanced ML models, and leading end-to-end data science initiatives from data mining to operationalization. Collaboration with product, engineering, and analytics stakeholders is key. | Agent | 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 |
| 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 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 |
| Sr Machine Learning Scientist This role focuses on designing, developing, and implementing machine learning models and algorithms for fraud prevention. It involves building scalable ML pipelines, ensuring data quality, and deploying models into production environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate ML models into products and services, and monitoring their performance. | Serve | 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 |
| Sr Machine Learning Engineer This role focuses on designing, developing, and implementing machine learning models and algorithms, working with data scientists and product teams to enhance services with AI/ML solutions. Responsibilities include building scalable ML pipelines, ensuring data quality, and deploying models into production to drive business insights and improve customer experiences. | Serve | 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 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist at PayPal focused on driving profitable growth in the consumer product portfolio by transforming complex data into actionable insights. This role involves partnering with cross-functional stakeholders, applying advanced analytical methods (including machine learning and causal inference), and shaping decisions that drive growth, engagement, and long-term customer value. The ideal candidate is business-oriented with strong technical expertise. | — | 5 |
| 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 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 |
| Sr SWE, Fraud Science Data Platform Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and optimizing data pipelines for fraud detection at PayPal. The role involves developing SQL pipelines for a fraud feature store and account linking intelligence systems, working with BigQuery, and managing job scheduling. It emphasizes graph algorithms and data structures for fraud-linking problems, collaborating with data scientists and ML teams. | Data | 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 Software Engineer This role is for a Sr. Software Engineer on the RegTech team at PayPal, focusing on integrating AI agents into the software development lifecycle. The engineer will design and orchestrate AI-Agent workflows, build guardrails around AI-generated code, and integrate these AI agents with existing development tools and pipelines to ensure scalable, secure, and observable processes. | Agent | 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 |
| Sr Manager, Data Engineering This role is for a Sr. Manager, Data Engineering at PayPal, focusing on building an integrated MarTech Platform. The role involves leading a team of data engineers to design and develop data infrastructure, pipelines, and systems for a CDP-based Marketing Automation Platform. A key aspect is guiding the team in adopting Agentic AI and building enterprise-class data platforms processing billions of records across batch and real-time architectures. The role requires hands-on technical expertise, people leadership, and driving operational rigor. | Data | 5 |
| Principal, Experience Architecture & AI Innovation This role focuses on architecting the connective tissue between people, tools, and platforms within PayPal's design organization, shaping how Experience Design (XD) operates in an AI-enabled product ecosystem. It involves prototyping, integrating, and scaling new AI capabilities to create an intelligent, adaptive network for design data, customer intent, and product performance, moving towards predictive, insight-driven creation. The role will involve AI-assisted workflows for QA, accessibility, content creation, and portfolio planning, as well as leading the concept and prototype of an 'Experience Intelligence Hub' and introducing intelligent pattern libraries and AI copilots. | Agent | 5 |
| Sr Staff Software Engineer - Backend (Python) Senior Staff Backend Engineer at PayPal focusing on architecting, building, and operating scalable distributed systems. The role involves defining backend architecture strategy, leading large-scale initiatives, and mentoring engineers. A key aspect is applying machine learning or LLM techniques for personalization, risk, search, and driving adoption of AI-assisted development and LLM-powered product features. | Ship | 5 |
| Staff Development Engineer in Test - Android This role focuses on architecting and implementing an AI-native test automation framework for Android, integrating AI-powered testing agents for test creation, triage, and bug analysis. It involves building tooling for developer productivity, enabling dynamic AI-driven test selection, and automating non-functional testing, with a strong emphasis on collaboration with ML engineers and platform teams. | Agent | 5 |
| Sr Data Scientist This role focuses on developing and implementing advanced data science models for risk and chargeback performance within PayPal's World product. It involves collaborating with stakeholders, driving best practices, ensuring data quality, and mentoring junior scientists. Experience in financial industry risk management and data science infrastructure for financial processes is preferred. | Data | 5 |
| Sr Staff Data Engineer Sr Staff Data Engineer at PayPal to lead the design and development of an integrated MarTech Platform, focusing on data infrastructure, pipelines, and systems for a next-generation CDP-based Marketing Automation Platform. This role involves technical leadership in building enterprise-class data platforms, handling billions of records with batch and real-time architectures, and solving low-latency data problems. A key responsibility is leading Agentic AI innovation, conceptualizing transformative data solutions, and driving strategic technical decisions across multiple teams. | Agent | 5 |
| Staff Data Engineer Staff Data Engineer to architect and develop enterprise-class data platforms and pipelines at massive scale, processing billions of records with expertise in both batch and real-time architectures. The role requires deep technical leadership, advanced SQL skills, and innovation through Agentic AI to conceptualize next-generation data solutions for a CDP-based Marketing Automation Platform. | Agent | 5 |