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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Staff Experience Designer, Risk Intelligence Platform This role focuses on designing user experiences for an AI/ML-powered Risk Intelligence Platform at PayPal. The Staff Experience Designer will create self-serve tools and dashboards to help risk and data teams detect, prevent, and respond to fraud in real time. The role involves translating complex ML capabilities into intuitive interfaces for both technical and non-technical users, simplifying technical workflows, and improving data discoverability and operational efficiency. | — | 5 |
| Sr Product Manager Product Manager for PayPal's P2P payments team, focusing on driving product strategy, roadmap, and execution to enhance user experiences through data-driven insights and AI/ML. The role involves collaborating with engineering, design, data science, and compliance teams to build and optimize consumer web and mobile payment flows. | — | 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 Exp Designer - Help Center & Messaging Platform This role focuses on designing AI-powered self-service experiences for PayPal's Help Center and Messaging Platform. The goal is to transform customer support into a competitive advantage by using AI and conversational design to anticipate user problems, provide instant solutions, and determine when human intervention is necessary. The impact includes deflecting contacts, saving costs, and improving customer satisfaction. | Agent | 5 |
| Sr Director, Content Design Platforms + Systems This role leads the development of next-generation Content Design Platforms and Systems, focusing on building intelligent tools and frameworks that shape how PayPal communicates across products, surfaces, and agents. It involves integrating AI-assisted authoring and tone-evaluation capabilities, defining metrics for clarity, and transforming the content design discipline into a strategic function within an AI-native product development environment. | Agent | 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 |
| Manager Credit Analytics This role is for a Manager Credit Analytics at PayPal in London. The primary focus is on analyzing complex datasets to identify trends and patterns, developing data models, and designing A/B tests to drive strategic initiatives. The role involves collaborating with various business units, including Marketing, Product, Sales, Finance, Legal, and Compliance, to provide data-driven solutions and actionable insights. Experience with SQL, dashboarding tools like Tableau, and scripting languages like Python is required. Familiarity with AI/LLM tools is a plus, and experience in a regulated financial environment is desirable. The role also includes mentoring junior data scientists. | — | 2 |
| Principal Engineer, Cloud Data Infrastructure Principal Engineer for Venmo's data platform infrastructure and performance engineering. Sets technology vision, architectural direction, and provides technical leadership for databases, data pipelines, messaging systems, caching, and performance engineering. Focuses on AI-first engineering practices and mentoring. | — | 1 |
| Senior Product Manager - Stablecoin & Crypto Product Manager for PayPal's Stablecoin & Crypto products, focusing on strategy, development, and growth. The role involves leveraging data for insights, gathering customer feedback, analyzing market data, and collaborating with various teams. It also includes leading agile development processes and utilizing AI tools to accelerate product development. The role is an individual contributor within the fintech domain. | — | 1 |
| Senior Data Scientist - Marketing This role focuses on developing and implementing advanced marketing data science models, primarily for Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM). It involves collaborating with stakeholders, driving data science best practices, ensuring data quality, and mentoring junior scientists. The ideal candidate has experience with Bayesian MMM, attribution modeling, and causal inference, using tools like Python, R, and SQL, preferably on Google Cloud. | — | 1 |
| Sr Staff Experience Designer: In-Store This role is for a Sr. Staff Experience Designer focused on In-Store experiences at PayPal. The designer will be responsible for enhancing user and customer experiences, influencing senior leadership, and developing innovative strategies for digital and physical products. While the role is primarily product-focused within fintech, there's an emphasis on being AI-curious and leveraging AI tools to improve design work. | — | 1 |
| Sr Software Engineer- Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps This role is for a Senior Software Engineer focused on Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps at Venmo, a PayPal company. The engineer will be responsible for ensuring the seamless operation of user-facing services and production/development systems, managing infrastructure including operations, automation, security, compliance, and release engineering. The role involves CI/CD, pipeline development, secret management, development environments, and microservices scaffolding. The engineer will also act as a hands-on contributor, mentor junior engineers, and drive scalability and reliability of Venmo's AWS cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer- Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Staff Software Engineer focused on Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps at PayPal, specifically within the Venmo engineering team. The role involves leading major initiatives, defining technical direction, and contributing hands-on to infrastructure operations, automation, security, compliance, and release engineering. Key responsibilities include managing CI/CD pipelines, secret management, development environments, and microservices scaffolding, with a strong emphasis on system quality, automated delivery, testing, and vulnerability scanning. The role also involves mentoring other engineers and driving best practices. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure and Devops Senior Software Engineer role focused on Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps at Venmo (PayPal). Responsibilities include managing AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, security, compliance, and release engineering. The role involves advising management, guiding junior engineers, and making technical decisions based on best practices. Experience with AWS, EKS, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, DataDog, Bash, Python, and Go is required. | — | 0 |
| Sr Director, Canada & LATAM Compliance This role is the Head of Americas Compliance & Canada Chief Compliance Officer within PayPal’s Global Compliance function responsible for delivering on the compliance and regulatory requirements for PayPal Canada Co., along with PayPal’s other legal entities in Brazil, Mexico and supporting the rest of Latin America (rLATAM), ensuring compliance with local laws and regulations. The Senior Director, Compliance provides key inputs as an industry expert, developing compliance vision aligned with PayPal-wide strategy. This role focuses on long-term compliance success, anticipating regulatory changes and directing activities across multiple areas with decisions that significantly impact organizational regulatory posture and reputation. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure and Devops Staff Software Engineer focused on Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps at PayPal/Venmo. Responsibilities include leading engineering activities, defining technical tasks, improving processes, making technical decisions, setting standards, and representing the company. The role involves managing infrastructure, operations, automation, security, compliance, and release engineering, with a focus on Cloud Engineering, SRE, and DevOps projects. Key tasks include overseeing CI/CD, developing secure pipelines, implementing secret management, creating development environments, and establishing scaffolding/testing frameworks. The engineer will contribute to strategic direction, lead initiatives, and mentor others on best practices. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager at PayPal in Chicago, IL, focusing on enterprise data management and governance. Responsibilities include documenting data flows, supporting business units with requirements and data mappings, leading the selection and implementation of data management technologies, defining data management practices, monitoring progress towards OKRs, supporting global data governance forums, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. Requires experience with SQL, cloud services, Master Data Management, Data Risk Management, sensitive data handling, data governance tools, and payments/banking platforms. | — | 0 |
| Finance Director Finance Director for PayPal UK, leading the finance function of the UK regulated entity. Responsibilities include financial reporting, controls, safeguarding, compliance with FCA regulations, risk assessments, improving control frameworks, and managing a team of financial controllers. The role partners with internal stakeholders, auditors, and regulators. | — | 0 |
| Staff Database Engineer Staff Database Engineer role at PayPal's Venmo Data Platforms team, responsible for engineering and operating production data stores. The role involves designing, implementing, automating, and operating next-generation, cloud-native database systems, driving operational excellence through automation and AI-driven optimization, and collaborating with infrastructure and product teams. Requires 5+ years of experience and expertise in various database technologies and cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Staff Data Scientist Staff Data Scientist at PayPal in London, GB, focusing on identifying growth opportunities within the consumer product portfolio using advanced analytics and data science. The role involves developing data models, algorithms, and reporting systems, analyzing complex datasets, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive business impact. Requires 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer at PayPal in San Jose, CA, responsible for designing, developing, and deploying scalable, distributed software systems. The role involves building and testing software features for applications and services, implementing solutions for market needs, and working in an Agile environment across various technologies like Node.js, React, JavaScript, REST, and GraphQL. | — | 0 |
| Sr Cybersecurity Engineer This role focuses on applying cybersecurity best practices to enhance and optimize PayPal's cyber threat management operations. The Sr Cybersecurity Engineer will analyze and respond to security alerts, incidents, and threats, participate in incident response readiness, and collaborate with security and engineering teams to improve security posture. The role also involves supporting and optimizing cybersecurity tools and automation systems, and contributing to the refinement of incident management procedures. Experience with SIEM, EDR, threat intelligence, detection engineering, security automation, cloud security, and compliance frameworks is required. | — | 0 |
| Product Manager Product Manager for PayPal's enterprise open banking product team, focusing on leveraging open banking for various use cases and advancing the enterprise platform. This role involves partnering with internal teams and engineering to define requirements and understand technical architecture. | — | 0 |
| Sr Manager, Risk Management This role focuses on leading complex projects and developing strategies for risk management and compliance within PayPal's fintech operations. It involves collaborating with teams to identify and mitigate risks, assessing business trends, and driving global process improvements. | — | 0 |
| Finance Controller Manager This role is for a Finance Controller Manager at PayPal Europe, responsible for financial integrity, statutory and regulatory compliance, entity governance, and maintaining a strong control environment. The role ensures compliance with regulatory frameworks for regulated banks/e-money institutions in Luxembourg, acts as the primary Finance liaison with regulators and external auditors, and partners with Controllership and Tax CoEs. The position involves representing Finance with Boards and local leadership, providing risk-based insights, and ensuring adherence to statutory, fiscal, and regulatory obligations. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Partner Marketing This is a Partner Marketing Manager role at PayPal, focused on deepening consumer engagement through partnerships with major brands. The role involves developing and executing marketing strategies, managing budgets, leading cross-functional teams, and analyzing business trends to drive measurable ROI. It requires strong consumer marketing and partnership experience, with fluency in English and Spanish. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Python Senior Software Engineer at PayPal focusing on backend development using Python, Django/Flask, and distributed systems. The role involves full SDLC, guiding junior engineers, and working with cloud platforms, databases, and messaging systems within the fintech domain. Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and observability is preferred, along with an awareness of payment industry regulations. | — | 0 |
| Senior DevOps Engineer - Data Infra This role focuses on designing, implementing, and operating data infrastructure, including data pipelines and message streaming solutions, to support Venmo's product, analytics, and other infrastructure teams. The engineer will automate provisioning, management, and monitoring, build tools for data insights, and manage relational and NoSQL databases. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, focusing on the Venmo Payments Engineering team. This role involves leading engineering efforts, defining outcomes, refining processes, and providing technical advice to senior leaders. The engineer will own the design, implementation, and operational excellence of software components on a large-scale payments platform, contributing to the technical roadmap and ensuring secure, reliable, and scalable service delivery. Responsibilities include code quality, performance, availability, and on-call support. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer for PayPal's Venmo Payments Engineering team, focusing on leading engineering efforts, defining technical tasks, improving systems and processes, and ensuring the quality and scalability of a major payments platform serving millions of users. | — | 0 |
| Lead Product Manager Lead Product Manager for PayPal's compliance product roadmap for markets outside the US. This role involves working with Business Units for international expansion, classifying and scoping compliance work, and partnering with architecture and engineering teams to ensure PayPal's international compliance posture keeps pace with regulatory change and business growth. The role requires experience in fintech, payments, or regulated financial services, and the ability to translate complex legal or regulatory requirements into buildable product and engineering specifications. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer at PayPal in Chicago, IL, responsible for designing and developing secure, high-performing data integration and ETL processes. This role involves building and maintaining robust data pipelines, implementing automated data quality checks, creating design documents, ensuring the reliability and scalability of data systems, troubleshooting data-related issues, and collaborating with stakeholders to meet data requirements. The engineer will also participate in code reviews and stay current with data engineering trends. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer at PayPal in Chicago, IL, focusing on leading architectural discussions, designing and deploying end-to-end client-side solutions using JavaScript, Node.js, React, and GraphQL. The role involves owning software services, implementing non-functional requirements, optimizing performance, and collaborating with various stakeholders. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and four years of experience in relevant technologies. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer Software Engineer role at PayPal, focusing on developing and maintaining web applications, debugging, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role involves using various tools and frameworks like JavaScript, Node.js, Spring Framework, and observability tools. It requires experience in web application development, enterprise Java applications, API development, shell scripting, version control, CI/CD pipelines, and distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer This role is for a Sr Software Engineer at PayPal in Austin, TX. The primary responsibilities include designing, developing, and deploying Ruby on Rails applications, collaborating with technical leads and product managers, reviewing pull requests, participating in Scrum ceremonies, and developing automated tests. The role also involves overseeing the stability and performance of existing applications and driving technical strategy discussions. Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), code management (Github), databases, CI/CD tools (Jenkins), Splunk, Java, RSpec, Postman, and technical documentation is required. A minor mention of applying AI/ML techniques like GitHub Copilot is present. | — | 0 |
| Sr Product Manager Sr Product Manager at PayPal to shape Product Vision and Strategy, analyze customer experiences, develop product roadmaps, define product requirements, and drive product development for digital financial payments technology. Requires Master's degree and experience in FinTech product management, API integrations, SQL, and product metrics. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer at PayPal in Austin, Texas, focusing on defining and executing the mobile technology roadmap, building and leading mobile engineering teams, driving innovation, and delivering world-class mobile experiences. Requires Master's degree or Bachelor's with equivalent experience, and significant experience in Android development (Java, Kotlin), object-oriented programming, REST APIs, Android UI design, Git, unit/UI testing, performance profiling, and security best practices. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer This role is for a Sr Software Engineer focused on building and refining cloud platforms using tools like Kubernetes, Ansible, and Terraform. The engineer will design, deploy, and manage scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on cloud platforms, ensuring functionality, scalability, and security. The role involves analyzing use cases, guiding technical decisions, and collaborating with development teams to integrate cloud solutions. | — | 0 |