Plaid currently has 14 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 43%, are focused on agents, with serving infrastructure also representing a significant portion at 21%. Engineering is the most frequent function, with all 14 roles located in the United States. Frequent tech tags include model_serving, inference_infra, and agent_orchestration, suggesting a focus on deploying and managing AI models.
Currently tracking 10 active AI roles, down 27% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering.
Plaid currently has 16 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: AI Marketing Technologist Lead, Analytics Engineer, Engineering Manager - Security, Engineering Manager, AI Applications, Fraud Researcher. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Plaid's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (44%), application (19%), pre-training (19%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Plaid is hiring AI talent in: United States (16 roles).
Job postings at Plaid most frequently reference: model serving, fine tuning, llm observability, agent orchestration, inference infra.
In the past 30 days, Plaid has posted 7 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) at Plaid, focusing on the Data Foundation & AI team. The role involves leading technical strategy and development of foundation models, covering the full ML lifecycle from pretraining to production serving, evaluation, and monitoring. The position requires expertise in Transformers/LLMs, large-scale training, and distributed training, with a focus on shipping models that power product applications and mentoring other engineers. | PretrainServe | 9 |
| Engineering Manager, AI Applications Engineering Manager to lead a newly formed team focused on scaling Plaid's AI-powered customer experience and integrating Plaid into AI applications. The role involves managing a team, defining strategy, and driving execution on projects related to AI customer support agents, agentic commerce, and AI provider integrations. |
| AgentPost-train |
| 8 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Instant Access Staff Software Engineer on the Instant Access team, building applied AI systems based on LLMs that operate autonomously in production. The role focuses on creating, repairing, and improving financial institution integrations, with responsibilities including defining technical direction for autonomous AI systems, building LLM-powered code generation pipelines, designing evaluation frameworks for non-deterministic systems, and architecting self-healing and multi-layer safety architectures. | AgentEval Gate | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer - AI Applications Plaid is building a new AI Applications team to scale their GenAI-powered products and features, focusing on integrating AI into financial services for customer experience, identity verification, and fraud prevention. The role involves full-stack development, architecting GenAI solutions, and rapid experimentation. | Agent | 8 |
| Staff Software Engineer - AI Applications Staff Software Engineer role focused on building and scaling AI applications within Plaid's FinTech ecosystem. The role involves developing integration patterns for AI providers, enhancing conversational AI interfaces, architecting trust layers for agentic commerce, and extending AI-powered customer experience agents. This includes working with multi-turn, multi-agent systems, RLHF, and customer-specific memory, as well as expanding agents to support product recommendation, onboarding, and upselling. | AgentShip | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineer - Embedded Insights Machine Learning Engineer focused on building and deploying AI/ML models into customer-facing financial products, driving initiatives from concept to production, and ensuring model performance and scalability. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Credit Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Plaid focused on credit products. The role involves designing, building, and deploying scalable ML solutions and systems, experimenting with new modeling techniques, and owning the full model lifecycle from training to serving and monitoring. Collaboration with cross-functional teams to define the ML roadmap is also a key aspect. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Embedded Insights Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on building and deploying ML models into Plaid's financial products, working across the full ML lifecycle from experimentation to production scaling and monitoring. The role involves analyzing financial datasets, developing proof-of-concept solutions, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to integrate models and ensure their long-term performance and reliability. | ShipData | 7 |
| Experienced Engineering Manager, Network Enablement and Access (NEA) Engineering Manager for Plaid's Network Enablement and Access (NEA) organization, focusing on leading a large engineering team (50+ engineers, 6 managers) through an AI transformation. The role involves setting engineering strategy, managing managers, owning technical direction for platforms including ML/data pipelines, and driving hiring. A key aspect is applying AI to engineering workflows and operational processes, with a push towards agentic systems for autonomous issue resolution. Experience leading AI transformations in engineering orgs and shipping data/insights products are nice-to-haves. | AgentData | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - ML Infrastructure Plaid is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and operate the ML infrastructure that powers their AI-first strategy. This role focuses on designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure ML platforms, including feature stores, pipelines, deployment tooling, and inference systems, to accelerate the delivery of AI-powered financial products. | ServeData | 7 |
| Data Scientist - Network Value Data Scientist role at Plaid focused on expanding access, authorization, and usability of user financial footprints within a fintech consumer network. The role involves performing analyses, designing data models, building ML prototypes, defining OKRs, and analyzing experiments to drive product and business outcomes. Requires strong SQL, Python, and experience with data pipelines and ML prototyping. | Post-train | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist - Data Foundations & AI Senior Data Scientist focused on building and operationalizing quality measurement and evaluation frameworks for AI/ML systems within Plaid's Data Foundation & AI team. The role involves defining metrics, investigating quality issues, automating workflows, and influencing roadmap decisions to ensure reliable and high-impact AI outcomes for customers. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist - Embedded Insights Senior Data Scientist role at Plaid focused on building machine learning models for internal decision making and customer-facing products. The role involves analyzing network data, developing metrics, creating dashboards, evaluating model performance, and designing experiments to improve products and expand offerings within the fintech domain. Requires strong SQL, Python, and understanding of ML techniques. | Ship | 5 |
| Fraud and Abuse Operations Analyst Plaid is seeking a Fraud and Abuse Operations Analyst to be the first line of defense against fraud and abuse on their platform. The role involves responding to events, investigating claims, triaging incidents, and partnering with product and engineering teams to improve fraud mitigation strategies. Responsibilities include safeguarding the platform, driving investigations, supporting incident response, and informing product strategy. Qualifications include experience in fraud/abuse operations, incident response, fraud detection, and data analysis, with a focus on SQL. Nice-to-haves include familiarity with ML models for fraud detection and production ML lifecycles. | — | 5 |
| Senior Data Scientist - Network Value Senior Data Scientist at Plaid focused on network value and consumer fintech products. Responsibilities include building ML prototypes, causal inference models, performing ad-hoc and strategic analysis, designing and analyzing experiments, and creating data models and dashboards to support product development and OKRs. | Agent | 5 |
| Finance Systems Manager This role focuses on managing and developing Plaid's Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) platform, Pigment, to support financial planning, forecasting, and reporting. It involves architecting, building, and improving financial infrastructure, integrating systems, and leading the AI and automation roadmap for FP&A. The role requires strong financial systems expertise, SQL skills, and the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions. | — | 5 |
| Analytics Engineer Analytics Engineer at Plaid, focusing on building predictive models (lead scoring, LTV, attribution) and enabling self-serve analytics through AI tools for the Marketing team. This role involves owning dbt models, productionizing predictive models, and collaborating with ML/Data Engineering teams. | Agent | 5 |
| Engineering Manager - Security Engineering Manager for Security Engineering at Plaid, focusing on building and scaling core security infrastructure for AI and MCP ecosystem, including agentic identities and workflows. Requires strong technical leadership, roadmap ownership, and partnership with product and platform teams to ensure secure development practices. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Developer Relations Engineer - Customer Growth and Experience Plaid is seeking a Senior Developer Relations Engineer to empower fintech companies to integrate with Plaid's APIs. This role involves creating developer documentation, building sample applications and demos, improving developer-facing resources, and advocating for developers by translating their needs into product insights. The engineer will collaborate cross-functionally to ensure a best-in-class developer experience and engage new developers at scale. A key aspect is leveraging generative AI to accelerate work while maintaining content quality. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure Senior Software Engineer on the Data Infrastructure team at Plaid, focusing on scaling data systems, improving ML development paths, and evolving data warehousing/lakehouse capabilities. The role involves contributing to the technical roadmap, leading key projects, and mentoring junior engineers. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Fraud and Abuse Operations Analyst Plaid is seeking a Senior Fraud and Abuse Operations Analyst to be the first line of defense against fraud and abuse on their platform. This role involves responding to incidents, investigating claims, triaging events, and partnering with product and engineering teams to improve fraud mitigation strategies. The analyst will conduct thorough investigations, perform threat modeling, manage high-priority incidents, and provide operational insights to product teams. Requirements include experience in fraud/abuse operations, incident response, deep knowledge of fraud typologies and TTPs, dark web investigation skills, data analysis (SQL), and operational maturity. Familiarity with ML models for fraud detection and AI agents is a plus. | — | 1 |
| Fraud and Abuse Operations Lead Plaid is seeking a Fraud and Abuse Operations Lead to be the first line of defense against fraud and abuse on their platform. This role involves responding to incidents, investigating claims, triaging events, and partnering with product and engineering teams to improve fraud mitigation strategies. The lead will own the abuse on-call rotation, conduct investigations, manage high-priority events, and influence product strategy by providing operational insights. | — | 1 |
| Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Release Engineering Staff Site Reliability Engineer focused on Release Engineering at Plaid, a fintech company. The role involves defining and scaling reliability practices, architecting SLO and error-budget programs, driving progressive delivery, and ensuring production readiness. A key aspect is preparing for AI-driven development by scaling safety nets to handle increased code velocity and frequency. | — | 0 |
| Technical Account Manager - Territory - Partnerships Technical Account Manager at Plaid, a fintech company, responsible for providing technical guidance and support to customers and partners to help them maximize their use of Plaid products. This role involves troubleshooting, integration reviews, and acting as a technical expert on Plaid's API and system architecture. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Security Engineering Software Engineer focused on Security Engineering at Plaid, developing and maintaining security systems and infrastructure including key management, secure data storage, and access control. The role involves building secure software, consulting with product engineers, and participating in incident response. | — | 0 |
| Senior ACH Payment Operations Analyst Senior ACH Payment Operations Analyst at Plaid, responsible for managing and supporting ACH payment operations, including monitoring exposure limits, handling investigations, daily reconciliation, and resolving operational alerts. Requires strong understanding of Nacha Operating Rules and collaboration with various internal teams and external customers. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager - Integrations Platform Engineering Manager for Plaid's Integrations Platform team, responsible for leading a team of 6 engineers, defining long-term strategy, and ensuring the delivery of a highly reliable and efficient extraction platform that powers all of Plaid's data extractions from financial institutions. The role focuses on traffic management, extraction frameworks, and network health to ensure data freshness, reliability, and cost-efficiency for Plaid's products and customers. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Product Security Senior Software Engineer focused on Product Security at Plaid, a fintech company. The role involves designing and building production-grade services, libraries, and frameworks to manage vulnerabilities, automate security workflows, and ensure secure development practices. The engineer will partner with product and engineering teams to architect and build security controls, consult on security standards, and contribute to incident response. | — | 0 |
| Senior Indirect Tax Associate This role focuses on managing and ensuring compliance with US and worldwide indirect tax matters for Plaid, a fintech company. Responsibilities include managing compliance, preparing reconciliations, assisting with audits, providing tax support for customer inquiries, maintaining tax positions, monitoring tax law changes, supporting the tax technology roadmap, and partnering with cross-functional teams. The role requires experience in US indirect tax, preferably with Big 4 public accounting background and experience in technology businesses. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer IC4 Software Engineer IC4 at Plaid's Europe team, focused on developing and improving Europe-specific payments and credit products. This role involves building frameworks and tooling for bank integrations and localizing global products for the European market. It requires collaboration with cross-functional teams, understanding client needs, and owning projects. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Product Security Software Engineer focused on Product Security at Plaid, building production-grade services, libraries, and frameworks to enhance security posture, automate vulnerability management, and ensure secure development practices for financial products. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Scientist - Credit Senior Data Scientist at Plaid focused on credit analytics and underwriting insights. The role involves working across modeling, retros, customer analysis, and product feedback loops to help lenders better understand and adopt Plaid's credit insights. This is a hands-on role applying quantitative analysis to lending decisions and translating complex data into recommendations. | — | 0 |
| Recruiting Manager, Engineering Plaid is seeking a Recruiting Manager, Engineering to lead and scale a technical recruiting team responsible for hiring top talent across general software engineering. This role involves partnering with senior leaders, shaping hiring strategy, driving operational excellence, and improving recruiting processes to deliver high-quality hiring outcomes at scale. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Online Storage Staff Software Engineer focused on building and scaling the online storage layer for Plaid's Core Data Models. The role involves designing, deploying, and optimizing storage systems for reliability, scalability, and performance, including query optimization, infrastructure cost management, and partnering with stakeholder teams. Requires deep expertise in backend/platform systems, storage technologies, database orchestration, and infrastructure tools like Terraform and AWS. | — | 0 |
| Integration Operations Program Manager This role is for an Integration Operations Program Manager at Plaid, focusing on the operational governance of new bank integrations, upgrades, and migrations. The role involves building program artifacts, driving risk management, providing status updates, and coordinating across various teams. While the team mentions 'AI Ops' as one of its focus areas, the core responsibilities of this specific role are centered around program management and operational execution for integrations, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Backend Software Engineer, Backend at Plaid, a fintech company focused on connecting financial accounts. The role involves designing and building scalable backend systems and APIs, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring code quality and reliability. Requires 1-4 years of experience in software engineering with strong problem-solving and ownership skills. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Backend Software Engineer, Backend at Plaid, a fintech company focused on empowering financial interactions through developer tools. The role involves designing and building scalable backend systems and APIs, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring code quality and system reliability. Requires 1-4 years of experience, strong problem-solving skills, and a high degree of ownership. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Backend Software Engineer, Backend at Plaid, a fintech company focused on empowering developers to build financial products. The role involves designing and building scalable backend systems and APIs, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring code quality and system reliability. Requires 1-4 years of experience in software engineering with strong problem-solving and ownership skills. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack Full Stack Software Engineer at Plaid, a fintech company, responsible for designing and building scalable backend services and APIs, as well as crafting intuitive frontend experiences. The role involves collaborating with product managers and designers, maintaining high code quality, testing, debugging, and contributing to system design and team growth. Requires 5+ years of experience, backend service development (relational databases, microservices), frontend skills (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, modern frameworks), and system design capabilities. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack Full Stack Software Engineer at Plaid, a fintech company, responsible for designing and building scalable backend services, APIs, and frontend experiences that enable users to connect to their finances. The role involves cross-functional collaboration, maintaining high code quality, testing, debugging, and contributing to system design and team growth. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Backend Senior Backend Software Engineer at Plaid, a fintech company focused on enabling financial data access and money movement. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining backend services and APIs, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring code quality and reliability. Emphasis on ownership, mentorship, and shipping products that impact millions of users in the financial ecosystem. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Backend Senior Backend Software Engineer at Plaid, a fintech company focused on financial data and money movement. The role involves designing and building backend services and APIs that power financial products used by millions of people. Responsibilities include hands-on coding, architectural design, collaboration with cross-functional teams, testing, debugging, and mentorship. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Backend Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Plaid, a fintech company focused on empowering financial transformation through developer tools and services. The role involves designing and building backend services, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring code quality and reliability. Requires extensive software engineering experience, microservices knowledge, and leadership/mentorship skills. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Full Stack Fullstack Software Engineer at Plaid, a fintech company, responsible for designing and building both frontend and backend components of systems that enable users to connect their financial accounts to apps and services. The role involves a majority backend focus (60-70%) on scalable, secure APIs and services, and a frontend focus (30-40%) on user experiences using modern JavaScript frameworks. Collaboration with product managers and designers is key to shipping reliable and secure products. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Full Stack Full Stack Software Engineer at Plaid, a fintech company, responsible for designing and building both backend services and frontend experiences that enable users to connect to their finances. The role involves a majority backend focus (60-70%) and a significant frontend component (30-40%), requiring collaboration with product managers and designers to ship reliable and secure products. | — | 0 |
| Technical Support Engineer Technical Support Engineer at Plaid, a fintech company, responsible for troubleshooting customer integration issues, managing tickets, and collaborating with engineering teams to resolve technical problems. Requires experience with APIs, SQL, and coding languages, as well as customer-facing support. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Europe Software Engineer role at Plaid's Europe team, focused on building and improving Europe-specific payment and credit products, developing frameworks for bank integrations, and localizing global products for the European market. Requires 2-5 years of full-stack (backend-leaning) experience with large-scale backend systems. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager - Data Partner Experience Engineering Manager for Plaid's Data Partner Experience team, focusing on building and scaling partner-facing products and platform infrastructure for managing financial institution integrations. The role involves technical leadership, team management, and cross-functional collaboration to improve data quality, partner satisfaction, and onboarding efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Implementation Specialist – Credit Plaid is seeking an Implementation Specialist to guide strategic customers through the integration of Plaid solutions, focusing on the Credit product. This role involves technical scoping, project management, and serving as a trusted advisor to ensure successful customer onboarding and launch. The specialist will partner with various internal teams and translate customer feedback into product insights. | — | 0 |
| Product Security Engineer Product Security Engineer at Plaid, a fintech company, focused on building production-grade services, libraries, and frameworks to enhance security posture and automate security controls within the CI/CD pipeline. The role involves developing internal tooling for vulnerability detection, dependency management, and remediation, aiming to replace manual security gates with engineered solutions and ensure services meet security standards. | — | 0 |