Plaid
Fintech · Financial data API
- HQ
- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2013
- Website
- plaid.com
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI Research Scientist role focused on advancing Plaid's foundation models by developing novel architectures, pretraining objectives, and fine-tuning strategies. The role involves working across the full ML stack from data and feature engineering to training pipelines, model serving, and monitoring, with a strong emphasis on shipping research into production systems for financial applications. | PretrainServe | 9 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI Lead applied research for Plaid's foundation model, focusing on architecture, pretraining, and fine-tuning for financial datasets. Build and maintain end-to-end ML systems, including training pipelines, model serving, and evaluation frameworks. Collaborate with product teams to adapt models and communicate research findings. | Pretrain |
| 9 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Fraud Researcher Senior Fraud Researcher at Plaid, focusing on using financial network data, transaction patterns, and device signals to detect and prevent fraud. The role involves leading investigations, translating findings into detection improvements, and collaborating with Data Science, ML/AI, and Product teams to shape fraud capabilities. It emphasizes applied research, signal utilization, and ecosystem monitoring to stay ahead of adversaries, directly driving features, model inputs, and product design. | Ship | 7 |
| Staff Product Manager - AI Foundations Staff Product Manager for Plaid's AI Foundations team, responsible for defining the strategy and roadmap for the core AI and data layer. This role involves building scalable AI systems from embeddings and representation learning to applied model integrations, partnering with Engineering and Data Science to drive initiatives from concept to production, and ensuring responsible AI practices. | ServeAgent | 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 |
| Partner Marketing Manager Plaid is seeking a Partner Marketing Manager to own the design and execution of joint marketing programs with Plaid's partners. This role will translate business objectives into GTM plans, create and execute co-marketing campaigns, and develop partner enablement materials. The ideal candidate will have 6-8+ years of B2B marketing experience, preferably in partner or channel marketing within the fintech space, and experience working with technology partners to drive customer acquisition and pipeline generation. The role requires strong cross-functional collaboration and the ability to influence stakeholders. | — | 5 |
| Lead Legal Operations Manager Plaid is seeking a Lead Legal Operations Manager to scale and manage the systems, processes, tools, and budget for their legal and compliance team. This role will own the technology strategy and roadmap for legal and compliance tech, including a significant focus on AI integration and governance. The manager will also oversee the team's budget, outside counsel spend, vendor management, and data/reporting, while also leading and developing a team member. Prior experience with legal operations, contracting, legal tech, and AI tools is required. | — | 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 |
| Strategic Initiatives Strategic Initiatives role at Plaid, a fintech company, focusing on undefined problems at the seams of teams, driving opportunities, and operating across strategy, GTM, operations, and product. Requires 10+ years of experience, with a strong track record in consulting and operating roles, and the ability to lead teams. The role emphasizes using AI tools and agents as a force multiplier and familiarity with them is a plus. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager Product Manager at Plaid, a fintech company, focused on defining and driving products that help millions connect, move, and manage their money. The role involves partnering with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams, shaping roadmaps, and using metrics to improve outcomes. It suits someone early in their PM career who loves to learn and build solutions. Familiarity with using AI in day-to-day product work is mentioned as a qualification. | — | 5 |
| Internal Communications This role is for an Internal Communications Lead at Plaid, focusing on building and owning communication systems, channels, and programs to keep employees informed and energized. A key part of the role involves shaping Plaid's internal AI narrative and helping employees understand the company's AI strategy and its implications for their work. The role requires leveraging AI tools in communications practice and partnering with executive leadership. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager Senior Product Manager at Plaid, a fintech company, responsible for defining and driving products that help millions connect, move, and manage their money. The role involves partnering with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to translate customer needs into impactful products. Familiarity with using AI in day-to-day product work is a plus. | — | 5 |
| AI Marketing Technologist Lead This role focuses on integrating AI into marketing workflows, designing and deploying AI-powered agents and automations, evaluating AI tools, and optimizing the marketing technology ecosystem. It requires hands-on experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and AI automation platforms, with a strong builder mentality for 0-to-1 development. | Agent | 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 |
| Business Operations Business Operations role at Plaid, a fintech company, focusing on strategic and operational initiatives across Product and Go-To-Market (GTM) teams. The role involves driving operating rhythms, building metrics and dashboards for data-driven decisions, and partnering on product strategy. A key aspect is the utilization of AI tools and agents as a standard part of daily work to enhance productivity. Requires experience in consulting, investment banking, or operating roles, with familiarity with AI tools being a plus. Experience in fintech is preferred. | — | 5 |
| FinOps Program Manager Plaid is seeking a FinOps Program Manager to oversee financial accountability, visibility, and optimization for engineering-related spend, including cloud infrastructure, AI/ML and data workloads, and SaaS tools. The role operates at the intersection of Engineering, Product, and Finance, enabling teams to understand and optimize their spend while maintaining engineering velocity. Responsibilities include monitoring and analyzing spend, building forecasts, leading optimization initiatives, creating dashboards, implementing FinOps practices, and driving alignment. The ideal candidate has 6-10+ years of experience in cloud-native or SaaS environments, strong cost analysis and forecasting skills, and experience partnering with engineering teams on cloud, data, and AI/ML workloads. Familiarity with FinOps principles and SQL is required, with cloud cost management tools and BI tools being nice to have. | — | 5 |
| AI Partner Development - GTM Pod This role is focused on Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy and partnerships within the AI space for a fintech company. The individual will work with AI companies of all sizes to ensure Plaid is the financial and identity provider of choice, driving deals and partnerships, and translating emerging use cases into business outcomes. The role requires identifying new AI-native partners, defining commercial structures, and supporting cross-functional GTM initiatives. | — | 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 |
| Product Manager Product Manager at Plaid, a fintech company, responsible for defining and driving products that help millions connect, move, and manage their money. This role involves partnering with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to translate customer needs into impactful products. The ideal candidate has 2-4 years of experience in a product-related role, a proven track record of launching products end-to-end, and familiarity with using AI in day-to-day product work. | — | 5 |
| Fraud Model Consulting Lead This role is a customer-facing consulting lead for Plaid's fraud products. The individual will own the retro and POC process, partner with customers to demonstrate ROI, drive adoption, and serve as a feedback loop to the product team. While the role does not build models, it requires understanding ML model output to present business cases and work with technical stakeholders. | — | 5 |
| Product Lead - Account Verification Product Lead for Account Verification at Plaid, focusing on strategy, roadmap, and expanding verification methods including open banking, ML, and traditional systems. The role involves driving self-serve tools, cross-functional partnerships, and representing Plaid as a thought leader in the AI-driven verification space. Requires strong product management experience, strategic vision, executional drive, and comfort with data and AI tools. | — | 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 |
| Event Operations Manager - This Week In Fintech This role is for an Event Operations Manager at Plaid, specifically for their 'This Week in Fintech' media company. The role focuses on leading the strategy and execution of various events, from intimate dinners to large conferences, to build community, strengthen brand value, and drive partnerships within the fintech ecosystem. It requires strong organizational, project management, and relationship-building skills, with experience in events, experiential marketing, or media. | — | 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 |
| Enterprise Sales Engineer - Sales Engineering Sales Engineer role at Plaid, a fintech company, focusing on the pre-sales technical aspects of enterprise accounts. The role involves demonstrating Plaid's products, addressing technical objections, architecting solutions, and handling RFPs to drive revenue outcomes. Requires deep understanding of the Fintech ecosystem and how clients can best utilize Plaid's API platforms. | — | 0 |
| Executive Assistant, Revenue & Partnerships Executive Assistant role at Plaid, a fintech company, supporting GTM leaders and their teams. Responsibilities include calendar management, meeting coordination, project execution, travel planning, and financial administration. Requires strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills, with experience in fast-paced tech environments. | — | 0 |
| Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate Finance and Strategy This role is for a Senior Financial Analyst at Plaid, focusing on corporate finance and strategy. Responsibilities include long-range planning, board processes, equity modeling, and financial strategy. It requires strong financial modeling skills and experience in tech/fintech. | — | 0 |
| Senior Financial Analyst Senior Financial Analyst at Plaid, focusing on financial planning, forecasting, and reporting. The role involves strategic insights, financial modeling, and business partnership, with an emphasis on process improvement and automation using FP&A systems. | — | 0 |
| Enterprise Account Executive - Named Accounts Enterprise Account Executive at Plaid, focused on generating new enterprise deals and building relationships with large companies in North America. The role involves owning and growing a portfolio of strategic enterprise accounts, leading complex sales cycles, and partnering cross-functionally to drive sales. | — | 0 |
| Senior Product Manager - Consumer Senior Product Manager for Plaid's Consumer team, focusing on Plaid Link and new 0-1 consumer initiatives. This role involves defining roadmaps, driving prioritization and execution, identifying opportunities through consumer feedback and data, and partnering with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate has experience launching large consumer-facing features, uses data for strategic decisions, and thrives in a high-ownership environment. | — | 0 |
| GTM Strategy & Operations This role is in GTM Strategy & Operations at Plaid, a fintech company. The responsibilities include supporting revenue operations, developing and tracking key revenue metrics, analyzing data for operational improvement and strategic decision-making, managing cross-functional initiatives, and establishing an efficient operating model for the GTM Revenue team. Qualifications include experience in business operations, revenue operations, investment banking, or management consulting, strong analytical and financial modeling skills, and proficiency with BI tools and CRM systems. | — | 0 |
| Enterprise Account Executive - Named Accounts Enterprise Account Executive focused on closing new deals and building relationships with large companies in North America for Plaid, a fintech company. | — | 0 |
| Customer Marketing Associate Plaid is seeking a Customer Marketing Associate to manage their customer marketing program, focusing on creating customer stories, managing assets, supporting sales and account management, overseeing review sites, and measuring program performance. This role requires strong project management and communication skills, with a preference for B2B SaaS or fintech experience. | — | 0 |
| Commercial Counsel Commercial Counsel at Plaid, a fintech company, responsible for drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, advising on commercial strategies, and mitigating legal and business risks. The role involves reviewing revenue-generating agreements, acting as a legal partner to business stakeholders, and developing an understanding of Plaid's products and privacy positions. | — | 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 |
| Enterprise Account Executive - Territory Accounts Enterprise Account Executive at Plaid, a fintech company, focused on generating new enterprise deals and building relationships with large companies in North America. The role involves identifying and closing major deals across various verticals, working with internal teams, and understanding complex technical products. | — | 0 |
| Enterprise Account Executive - Territory Accounts Enterprise Account Executive at Plaid, a fintech company focused on empowering financial transformation through developer tools. The role involves generating new enterprise deals, building relationships with large companies, and identifying high-value use cases for Plaid's solutions. Requires 5+ years of SaaS sales experience and 1+ year in Enterprise Account Executive roles, with a strong track record of closing six-figure deals and selling technical products. | — | 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 |