Plaid

Plaid is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to lead applied research on their foundation model, focusing on designing architectures, pretraining objectives, and fine-tuning strategies. The role involves building and maintaining end-to-end production ML systems, including training pipelines, model serving, feature engineering, and monitoring, with a strong emphasis on shipping models to production and developing robust evaluation frameworks.

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.