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.
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| Product Manager 2 - Technical Product Manager 2 - Technical role at PayPal in San Jose, CA. Responsible for converting business requirements to technical requirements, driving product feature delivery, and building the product roadmap. Requires experience in digital financial payments, API integrations, FinTech product management, SQL, and data analysis. The role involves working closely with engineering, analytics, and compliance teams throughout the software development lifecycle. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer This role focuses on designing, developing, and optimizing core backend systems for PayPal, a global fintech company. The engineer will define technical roadmaps, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure scalability, performance, and reliability of systems powering millions of transactions. Experience with cloud-native solutions, microservices, serverless architectures, Python, and AWS is required. | — | 0 |
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| Sr Specialist, Integration Partner This role provides technical guidance to merchants and developers for PayPal's payment processing solutions, APIs, and commerce products. It involves troubleshooting technical issues, creating technical documentation, and acting as a resource for sales departments. The role also includes defining, designing, and implementing complex software applications, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability in a high-throughput environment. Experience with back-end software systems, software architecture, and data analysis is required. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer at PayPal in Scottsdale, AZ, responsible for driving key initiatives, managing critical incidents, analyzing and resolving bugs, developing high-quality software code, and managing workload efficiently. Requires a Master's degree in Computer Science or related field with two years of experience in Python/Java, external processing partner engineering, SQL, transaction processing, batch processing, Kafka/Elasticsearch, and high-volume transaction triage. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer Sr Software Engineer at PayPal in Chicago, IL. Responsibilities include coding high-volume and scalable software (front-end and back-end), creating web applications using React/Node, back-end services using Java, SQL, ReST, and developing new user-facing experiences. The role involves partnering with cross-functional teams, leveraging AI to enhance application capabilities, designing and implementing micro-services, troubleshooting, debugging, monitoring system performance, writing automation tests, and maintaining CI pipelines. Requires a Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field plus three years of experience. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer Sr Software Engineer at PayPal in Scottsdale, AZ, responsible for analyzing technical requirements, designing, and developing robust, scalable software applications and features using object-oriented programming. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, creating and maintaining high-performing Swift code, developing automated tests, and delivering high-quality software in a CI/CD environment. Requires experience with iOS development, Swift, RESTful APIs, Agile methodologies, and modern UI principles. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer Sr Software Engineer at PayPal in Chicago, IL, responsible for designing, developing, and deploying high-quality product features for Partners and Marketplaces. Requires strong coding background in Java/J2EE, RESTful web services, unit testing, performance testing with JMeter, and experience with SQL & NoSQL solutions. Collaborates with product managers, architects, and QA to develop innovative solutions, adhering to best practices and identifying technical improvements. Minimum Master's degree in Computer Science or related field plus two years of experience, or Bachelor's degree plus five years of experience. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer Sr Software Engineer at PayPal in Austin, TX, focusing on developing and maintaining scalable and secure payment processing systems. Responsibilities include writing efficient Java/Spring Boot code, managing CI pipelines, optimizing system performance, collaborating with business users, and mentoring other engineers. Requires a Master's degree and experience in scaling applications, Java, Spring Framework, REST API development, data visualization for monitoring, Splunk/Kibana, Python, Oracle, MySQL, AWS, Kafka, Git, payment API processing, and AppDynamics. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer 3 Software Engineer 3 at PayPal in Austin, TX, responsible for analyzing software product requirements, transforming them into scalable technical designs, optimizing performance, building scalable applications and APIs, developing automated tests, and maintaining release processes. The role involves designing and coding solutions, evaluating production systems, designing user interfaces, driving architecture discussions, and participating in design and code reviews. Requires a Master's degree in Computer Science or related field with two years of experience, or a Bachelor's degree with five years of experience. Specific skills include Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, frontend development (JavaScript, JQuery, AngularJS, HTML, CSS), AWS, CI/CD (Jenkins, Maven), Docker, database administration (NoSQL, IBM DB2), Object-Oriented Design, Functional Programming, and distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer at PayPal in Austin, TX, responsible for designing, developing, and deploying scalable web applications and back-end services. Focuses on performance, scalability, security, and integrating features using technologies like Next.js, GraphQL, and Datadog. Requires a Master's degree in Computer Science or related field with 3 years of experience. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer Sr Software Engineer at PayPal in Austin, TX, focused on developing and managing end-to-end mobile experiences for PayPal's revolving consumer credit products. Requires expertise in Swift, Objective-C, iOS architecture, API integration, and financial technology. The role involves designing reusable code, collaborating with product owners, and ensuring software development excellence. | — | 0 |
| MTS 2, Software Engineer Software Engineer role at PayPal focusing on end-to-end ownership of features, projects, and services within the software development lifecycle. Responsibilities include leading design and implementation of payment experiences, optimizing software performance, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability, and mentoring junior engineers. The role emphasizes CI/CD, DevOps practices, and collaboration with other development teams. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer at PayPal in San Jose, CA, focusing on developing and maintaining user-facing products and features. Responsibilities include implementing UI/UX designs, writing web application code, designing reusable UI components, solving complex business problems with algorithms, troubleshooting production issues, implementing security features, optimizing applications for performance and scalability, and developing automated test suites. Requires a Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and one year of experience. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer Sr Software Engineer at PayPal in San Jose, CA. Responsibilities include designing and implementing backend software products and solutions, developing new features, optimizing system performance, and ensuring high-quality code delivery in a CI/CD environment. Requires experience with Python, object-oriented design, REST APIs, Django/Flask, algorithmic techniques, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), SQL/NoSQL databases, and ORM tools. The role is focused on building and scaling backend systems for a global financial platform. | — | 0 |
| VP, Talent and Belonging PayPal is seeking a VP of Talent Management and Belonging to lead global strategy and execution of integrated talent programs, including Diversity, Inclusion, Equity & Belonging (DIE&B), across its 28,000+ employees. This role will shape and lead global talent, leadership, and workforce strategy from onboarding to succession planning, driving organizational design and fostering an inclusive employee experience. A key focus will be embedding DIE&B and PayPal’s Leadership Principles into all aspects of the employee experience, with an emphasis on evolving towards a skills-based organization and leveraging AI/emerging technologies in talent management. The role also involves partnering with People Analytics for workforce planning and retention insights, establishing metrics for DIE&B initiatives, and driving career frameworks and internal mobility strategies. | — | 0 |
| Credit Risk Manager - Strategic Partnerships PayPal is seeking a Credit Risk Manager for their European and Australian Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) Risk Team. This role involves designing merchant-specific credit strategies, leading data science projects, developing and maintaining data models and algorithms, and analyzing complex datasets to identify trends and insights. The position requires strong quantitative and analytical skills, proficiency in SQL and Python, and experience in credit risk management within consumer credit products. The role is hands-on, analytics-heavy, and embedded within a credit risk organization, bridging commercial deal execution and risk management. | — | 0 |
| Sr Lead Product Manager - Compliance KYC Senior Lead Product Manager for PayPal's AML/KYC product strategy in EU markets, focusing on translating regulatory expectations into scalable solutions for onboarding, identity verification, and compliance controls. This role requires balancing risk, conversion, and speed in partnership with various internal teams. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer, Python Software Engineer, Python role at PayPal focused on delivering complete solutions across the SDLC for global commerce and payment platforms. Responsibilities include architecting, developing, and optimizing core backend systems, leading engineering teams, and mentoring junior engineers. Requires expertise in Python, Django/Flask, RESTful APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer at PayPal in Austin, TX, focused on designing, developing, and deploying scalable distributed software systems for the global payments platform, specifically checkout billing agreements. The role involves translating business needs into secure, high-performance solutions, driving platform evolution, and resolving technical challenges within the fintech domain. Responsibilities include leading cross-functional projects, mentoring engineers, contributing to open-source, and ensuring compliance with standards. | — | 0 |
| Sr Cybersecurity Engineer This role focuses on cybersecurity engineering within the fintech domain, specifically addressing application security vulnerabilities and managing vulnerability platforms. It involves analyzing security challenges, determining the impact of vulnerabilities, and collaborating with engineering teams to improve security posture. The role requires experience with various programming languages and vulnerability scanning tools, as well as knowledge of financial services security standards. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer Seeking a Sr Software Engineer to design, develop, test, and deploy robust software solutions using Java in PayPal’s recommended environment, ensuring high performance, security, and scalability. Responsibilities include driving architecture discussions, managing project deliverables, and developing automated tests within a CI/CD environment. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on defining, designing, and implementing complex, multi-tier distributed software applications, including high throughput back-end systems, object-oriented software, and user interfaces. Responsibilities include developing software code, leading code reviews, analyzing support requests, building automated software processes for technical debt remediation, interfacing with platform engineering teams, and identifying/fixing live software issues. The role also involves designing and implementing user interfaces using frontend frameworks, integrating APIs, optimizing UI performance, and ensuring accessibility. Experience with AWS ECS, Java, TypeScript, Ruby, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, SQL, HIVE, PL/SQL, and ETL processes is required. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer at PayPal in Austin, TX, responsible for designing, developing, and deploying applications, building microservices with high concurrency, and troubleshooting scalability and latency issues. The role involves working with business partners to enhance a compliance platform, requiring experience in object-oriented design, RESTful APIs, Spring Boot, relational databases, message-driven systems, and cloud platforms. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Software Engineering Manager, Software Engineering at PayPal in Austin, TX. This role involves leading software development projects, managing individual contributors, implementing processes for operational hygiene, and delivering projects impacting the domain. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, 8 years of experience, and specific skills in large-scale applications, technical leadership, object-oriented design, programming languages, software development best practices, mobile or backend development, system design, cloud platforms, database design, and fintech/payments technology. The role also requires experience communicating technical information to non-technical stakeholders and leading cross-functional teams. Partial telecommuting is permitted. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Entity Management Manager, Entity Management role at PayPal focused on ensuring regulatory and governance obligations through effective data management and reporting. Involves managing data requests, regulatory reporting, and reporting for governance processes, assessing new and existing regulatory reporting requirements, and working with cross-functional teams to confirm data availability and accuracy. Requires strong data manipulation and organizational skills. | — | 0 |
| Sr Analyst, Global Investigations This role focuses on leading financial crime investigations and performing root cause analyses to identify risk mitigation opportunities within PayPal's global operations. The analyst will manage a case portfolio, present findings, and collaborate with internal stakeholders to shape and execute comprehensive investigations into fraud patterns and trends. | — | 0 |
| Manager, PayPal+ France Lead Manager for PayPal's consumer loyalty program in France, focusing on strategy, commercial performance, and market growth. This role drives cross-functional execution across various teams (commercial, partnerships, product, marketing, financial services) and shapes program evolution. Responsibilities include identifying strategic partnerships, negotiating with external partners, shaping commercial strategy, establishing scalable partnership frameworks, aligning product and business levers, and collaborating with Product, Design, and Research teams. The role requires experience in consumer loyalty programs, fintech/payments, and driving commercial outcomes in a matrixed environment. Familiarity with the French payments or retail loyalty landscape and strong analytical skills are preferred. | — | 0 |
| Manager, PayPal+ Spain Lead Manager for PayPal's consumer loyalty program in Spain, focusing on strategy, commercial performance, and cross-functional execution to drive market growth. | — | 0 |
| Executive Assistant Business Partner Executive Assistant Business Partner role at PayPal, supporting VPs with administrative tasks like calendar management, travel, expenses, and database maintenance. Requires 3 years of relevant experience. | — | 0 |
| Sr Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis This role is for a Sr Analyst in Financial Planning & Analysis at PayPal. The responsibilities include forecasting, budgeting, financial modeling, performance measurement, reporting, and analysis. The role also supports transformation projects, optimizes analytics tools, and collaborates with finance and technical teams for process improvements. The candidate will gather inputs, summarize insights, and present them to senior leadership. | — | 0 |
| Sr Staff Software Engineer Sr. Staff Software Engineer for Venmo's identity infrastructure, focusing on authentication, authorization, identity verification, and fraud risk systems. This role involves setting technical direction, leading architectural reviews, mentoring engineers, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements like KYC, AML, GDPR, and PCI. The engineer will also own the performance and availability of services and participate in on-call rotations. | — | 0 |
| Product Manager Product Manager for Venmo payments at PayPal, responsible for leading payment strategy, vision, growth, and delivery of high-quality payment offerings. Focuses on innovative, scalable, and robust solutions to improve customer payment experiences within the fintech domain. | — | 0 |
| Sr Manager, Network Compliance & Payment Partner Oversight Senior Manager of Network Compliance and Payment Partner Oversight at PayPal. This role provides strategic leadership for external partner compliance across global payment networks and financial institutions, acting as a second line of defense (2LOD) oversight function. Responsibilities include independent oversight, effective challenge, risk mitigation, and compliance strategy development, with a focus on payment network rules, regulatory obligations, and partner due diligence. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Software Engineer Sr. Software Engineer at PayPal in San Jose, CA, responsible for collaborating with product and engineering teams to identify testing requirements, create test plans and cases, promote quality culture, contribute to release processes with test results, and build a regression automation suite. Requires experience with iOS automation, mobile and web application testing, Jenkins CI pipelines, RESTful APIs, Swift, and Copilot AI. | — | 0 |
| Sr Cybersecurity Engineer Senior Cybersecurity Engineer role focused on managing and monitoring Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) and Certificate Authorities (CAs), including their lifecycle management, security updates, backups, recovery, and integration with other systems. The role involves scripting for automation, incident response, and participation in security audits, with a requirement for experience in cloud environments and DNS management. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer at PayPal in Scottsdale, AZ, responsible for developing and maintaining backend software services using Java, Spring Boot, and Spring Batch. The role involves designing and implementing RESTful APIs for PayPal Credit features, troubleshooting issues, writing tests, optimizing performance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires experience with Java, Spring frameworks, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), messaging systems (Kafka), SQL, RESTful APIs, distributed systems, and testing frameworks. | — | 0 |
| Sr Lead Product Manager Sr Lead Product Manager at PayPal in San Jose, CA. This role focuses on managing the engineering backlog, prioritizing, and delivering software products, creating product roadmaps, and working with engineers on data frameworks. It requires experience in product management within e-commerce or fintech, specifying requirements for large-scale applications, building platform technologies, and using data visualization tools. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Software Engineer Sr. Software Engineer at PayPal in San Jose, CA, responsible for designing, developing, and deploying software for transaction processing in the payments domain. Requires expertise in Java/J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, and various web/cloud technologies, with a focus on end-to-end quality and collaboration with infrastructure teams. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer at PayPal in San Jose, CA, responsible for coding high-volume and scalable software, partnering with cross-functional teams, writing clean and maintainable code, developing and maintaining databases, participating in code reviews, and assisting in troubleshooting and debugging back-end services. Requires a Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and 1 year of experience in backend development (Java/Spring, Python/Django), databases (SQL, NoSQL), GraphQL, Node.js, software architecture, cloud services (AWS, GCP), UI development (Angular), infrastructure management (Terraform, Ansible, CDK), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and release management (Git pipelines, Jenkins). | — | 0 |
| Sr Database Engineer Sr. Database Engineer at PayPal in San Jose, CA, responsible for executing strategic infrastructure transformation initiatives, leading database platform initiatives for availability and performance, architecting cloud-native data solutions, designing infrastructure-as-code frameworks, establishing security protocols, designing monitoring and observability solutions, executing performance optimization, driving incident response, providing technical consultation, and architecting/coding database tooling and automation frameworks using AI-powered solutions. Requires a Master's degree or Bachelor's degree with equivalent experience, and extensive experience in Oracle databases, MySQL, MSSQL, cloud environments (Oracle Cloud, Exadata), and scripting languages like Python. | — | 0 |
| Sr Manager, Offers Strategy Senior Manager, Offers Strategy at PayPal to own and drive the merchant offers program in Germany. This role involves developing strategies for partnering with merchants across online, in-store, and subscription channels to deliver compelling offer experiences directly within the PayPal consumer app. The candidate will act as a liaison between merchant partners, sales teams, and internal stakeholders, pitching merchants, training commercial teams, and shaping the product experience. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer Software Engineer at PayPal responsible for delivering complete solutions across the SDLC, advising management, guiding junior engineers, and applying technical best practices. Focuses on general software engineering within the fintech domain. | — | 0 |
| PPEU ICT Risk & Resilience Manager This role is a Manager for ICT Risk & Resilience within PayPal Europe, focusing on compliance with the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and other European regulatory frameworks. The position involves ensuring digital operational resilience, cyber risk management, and regulatory compliance are integrated into business strategy and operations. Responsibilities include monitoring, assessing, and reporting ICT and cyber-related changes, supporting cyber resilience controls, contributing to incident management and regulatory reporting, and supporting senior management reporting and assurance activities. The role requires expertise in security governance, risk assessment, and mitigation strategies within a regulated environment. | — | 0 |
| Staff Cybersecurity Engineer Staff Cybersecurity Engineer at PayPal responsible for identifying and resolving complex security issues, automating security checks and remediation processes within the CI/CD pipeline, integrating security scans, investigating incidents, and designing security architecture. Requires expertise in cloud platforms, containerization, scripting, and various security tools. | — | 0 |
| Staff Experience Designer PayPal is seeking a Staff Experience Designer to enhance user experience across digital and physical products. This role involves leading functional projects, analyzing business trends, and collaborating with stakeholders to prioritize user needs in design processes. The designer will develop plans to improve user engagement and satisfaction, and determine methods for new assignments that may impact others. | — | 0 |
| Manager, UK BNPL Consumer Strategy Manager role focused on growing PayPal's Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) adoption among UK consumers. This role involves working at the intersection of product, marketing, and analytics to drive customer acquisition, engagement, and retention. The individual will be the voice of the consumer within the BNPL team, ensuring products and go-to-market strategies resonate with target audiences. Responsibilities include developing consumer audience frameworks, analyzing customer behavior, collaborating with marketing on campaigns, supporting new product launches, advocating for consumer needs with product teams, and defining/tracking consumer KPIs. Experience in consumer marketing, product marketing, or growth roles within BNPL or consumer credit is required, with a proven track record in driving customer acquisition, engagement, and retention. | — | 0 |
| Sr Data Scientist This role focuses on developing and implementing advanced data science models and algorithms for fraud risk management within PayPal's fintech domain. The responsibilities include owning fraud risk policy, collaborating with stakeholders to optimize strategies, identifying emerging fraud trends, and developing mitigation strategies. The role requires strong analytical skills, proficiency in data science tools, and experience in payments or risk management. | — | 0 |
| Lead Product Manager - Payments Data Platform & Governance Lead Product Manager for PayPal's Payments Data Platform & Governance, focusing on strategy and execution of data infrastructure and governance services for global wallet products. This role requires ensuring secure, compliant, and high-quality data for payments, compliance, and risk platforms within a highly regulated financial environment. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Accounting - MDM, Governance & M&A Manager, Accounting - MDM, Governance & M&A leads a team responsible for Master Data Management (MDM), Chart of Accounts and reconciliation governance, and corporate M&A accounting operations. This role involves hands-on oversight of critical accounting processes, people leadership, ensuring data integrity, close accuracy, and cross-functional collaboration. Responsibilities include leading process workstreams, identifying and mitigating finance-related risks, managing multiple workstreams, and supervising a Senior Accountant. | — | 0 |