Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Visa Inc. 

Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Visa Inc. 

Company Visa Inc.
Job title Staff Machine Learning Scientist
Job location Austin, Texas, US
Type Full Time

Responsibilities:

  • Work with a team to conduct world-class research on data analytics and contribute to the long-term research agenda in large-scale data analytics and machine learning, as well as deliver innovative technologies and insights to Visa’s strategic products and business.
  • Develop AI/Machine learning models to detect credit card information attacks.
  • Formulate business problems as technical data problems while ensuring key business drivers are captured in collaboration with product stakeholders.
  • Work with product engineering to ensure implementability of solutions.
  • Deliver prototypes and production code based on need.
  • Experiment with in-house and third-party data sets to test hypotheses on relevance and value of data to business problems.
  • Build needed data transformations on structured and un-structured data. Build and experiment with modeling and scoring algorithms.
  • Develop custom algorithms and use packaged tools based on machine learning, data mining and statistical techniques.
  • Devise and implement methods for adaptive learning with controls on effectiveness, methods for explaining model decisions where necessary, model validation, and A/B testing of models.
  • Devise and implement methods for efficiently monitoring model effectiveness and performance in production.
  • Devise and implement methods for automation of all parts of the predictive pipeline to minimize labor in development and production.
  • Contribute to development and adoption of shared predictive analytics infrastructure.
  • Position reports to the Austin, TX office and may allow for partial telecommuting

Requirements & Skills:

  • Employer will accept a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Engineering, or related field.
  • Machine learning
  • Deep learning
  • Python Programming
  • Advanced Statistics
  • Scala programming
  • Spark programming
  • Graph learning
  • Functional data analysis

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