Plaid · 4 months ago
Engineering Manager- Machine Learning Infrastructure
San Francisco
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$241K/yr - $400K/yr
8+ years expPlaid is evolving into an AI-first company focused on leveraging data and machine learning to enhance financial insights. The Engineering Manager for Machine Learning Infrastructure will lead a senior engineering team in designing, delivering, and operating Plaid’s ML infrastructure, ensuring high-quality systems and collaboration with product teams.
BankingFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
Lead and support the ML Infra team, driving project execution and ensuring delivery on key commitments
Build and launch Plaid’s next-generation feature store to improve reliability and velocity of model development
Define and drive adoption of an ML Ops 'golden path' for secure, scalable model training, deployment, and monitoring
Ensure operational excellence of ML pipelines, deployment tooling, and inference systems
Partner with ML product teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions that accelerate model development and iteration
Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team culture
Qualification
Required
8–10 years of experience in ML infrastructure, including direct hands-on expertise as an engineer, IC/TL
2+ years of experience managing infrastructure or ML platform engineers
Proven experience delivering and operating ML or AI infrastructure at scale
Solid technical depth across ML/AI infrastructure domains (e.g., feature stores, pipelines, deployment, inference, observability)
Demonstrated ability to drive execution on complex technical projects with cross-team stakeholders
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
401(k)
Company
Plaid
Plaid develops financial technology infrastructure that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts and financial data.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.31BKey Investors
Franklin TempletonAltimeter CapitalGoldman Sachs Investment Partners
2025-04-03Series Unknown· $575M
2025-04-03Secondary Market
2023-10-19Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Zachary Perret
Co-Founder & CEO
Eric Sager
COO
Recent News
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