PayPal
- Founded
- 1998
- Website
- paypal.com
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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. | Agent |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |