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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Sr Data Scientist This role focuses on leading the development and implementation of advanced data science models and algorithms within PayPal. The individual will collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements, deliver solutions, drive best practices in data science, ensure data quality, and mentor junior scientists. The role is not directly building AI/ML models but rather applying data science principles in a broader enterprise context. | — | 0 |
| Staff Data Scientist Staff Data Scientist at PayPal focused on designing and implementing advanced data science models to support business needs. The role involves leading projects, developing data models and algorithms, analyzing complex datasets, collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring data quality, and mentoring junior scientists. Requires 5+ years of relevant experience. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Manager, Payments and Fraud Oversight This role provides independent second-line oversight of payment and fraud-related risks for PayPal's European operations. It involves delivering risk challenge, independent opinion, and thematic analysis to ensure first-line processes operate within risk appetite and controls are effective. The role also contributes to enhancing risk analytics, data insight, and technical capability to improve visibility over the payments and fraud risk landscape, ensuring alignment with EU and Luxembourg regulatory expectations. | — | 0 |
| Sr Manager, Treasury This role is for a Sr. Manager, Treasury at PayPal, focusing on LATAM operations. The responsibilities include supporting regulatory and licensing compliance, managing intercompany funding, cash management, forecasting, and reporting. The role also involves treasury risk management (liquidity, counterparty, market risk), capital planning, and exploring opportunities to reduce operational risk and enhance internal controls. A key aspect is promoting the use of AI and automation within the Treasury function. | — | 0 |
| Staff Data Scientist This role focuses on designing and implementing advanced data science models to support business needs within PayPal, a global fintech company. The responsibilities include leading data science projects, developing and maintaining data models and algorithms, analyzing complex datasets for insights, collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring data quality, and mentoring junior data scientists. The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of relevant experience. | — | 0 |
| Sr Manager, Software Engineering Senior Manager to lead Venmo Search & Feed teams, driving the development of world-class mobile applications, services, and APIs. Responsible for overseeing engineering teams, ensuring timely delivery of innovative solutions, setting operational targets, and creating roadmaps for multiple scrum teams. Focuses on user-facing products within the fintech domain. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - iOS Staff Software Engineer for PayPal's Pay with Venmo iOS experience, focusing on checkout flows, app switching, vaulting, and account linking. This is a hands-on individual contributor role driving architecture, code delivery, cross-team initiatives, and mentoring. | — | 0 |
| Cyber Reliability & Resilience Manager This role is a senior governance, risk, and controls position within PayPal's PCIS / ICR team, focusing on ensuring compliance with the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and other European regulatory frameworks. The Manager will oversee digital operational resilience, cyber risk management, and regulatory compliance, acting as a strategic bridge between local obligations and enterprise technology/security operations. Responsibilities include defining risk mitigation strategies, leading initiatives, managing a team, and overseeing BCM, DR, and cyber resilience controls. | — | 0 |
| Sr Auditor, Internal Audit Sr Auditor, Internal Audit role at PayPal focused on executing audit assignments, drafting reports, tracking issue closures, and evaluating compliance with global regulations and enterprise standards. This is a fixed-term contract for maternity coverage. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - iOS Staff Software Engineer for the Venmo iOS app, focusing on commerce experiences. This role will guide technical direction, influence patterns, tooling, and quality across mobile, working with product designers, Android, and backend engineers. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Backend Python Staff Software Engineer at PayPal focusing on backend Python development within the Venmo team. The role involves delivering complete solutions across the SDLC, acting as a technical leader, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring the robustness and resilience of payment backend services. Responsibilities include code and design reviews, collaborating with product managers, owning service performance and availability, and participating in on-call rotations. | — | 0 |
| Distinguished Software Architect Distinguished Software Architect at PayPal responsible for driving the architectural evolution of critical systems, ensuring platforms are cutting-edge, resilient, and adaptable. This role involves translating product roadmaps into technical strategies, collaborating with business and engineering leaders, and mentoring technical leadership across the organization. Focus is on the overall technology strategy for customer-facing systems including Digital Wallet, P2P payments, Shopping, Ads, Marketing, and Rewards. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer, BE Python Senior Software Engineer at PayPal focused on backend Python development, delivering complete solutions across the SDLC for a large-scale payments platform. Responsibilities include technical decision-making, guiding junior engineers, and ensuring the performance and availability of services. | — | 0 |
| Sr Data Scientist, Credit Risk Oversight This role provides analytical support for the Second Line oversight of Small Business Lending and Buy Now Pay Later products, focusing on underwriting and account management practices. It involves developing and implementing data science models, ensuring data quality, and collaborating with stakeholders to maintain strategic goals and operate within risk appetite. The role requires strong analytical skills, credit risk domain expertise, and the ability to maintain independence while providing effective challenges. | — | 0 |