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Block · 1 day ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Financial Crimes

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$229K/yr - $343K/yr

6+ years exp

Block is a company built from many blocks, united by the purpose of economic empowerment. The CashApp Financial Crimes Machine Learning team is responsible for detecting, preventing, and reporting illegal activity across all markets, leveraging machine learning to ensure a safe user experience while minimizing bad activity on the platform.

Financial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models to detect and prevent financial crimes such as money laundering, human exploitation, and terrorist financing

Collaborate closely with stakeholders, business partners, and product engineering teams to ensure that data can be leveraged effectively to build efficient solutions within our regulatory program

Produce and maintain thorough documentation of our program that can withstand regulatory scrutiny

Proactively identify new opportunities and future needs of our ML teams

Lead by example by applying ML and engineering best practices

Stay current on ML developments in the field, foster an environment of continuous learning, and apply new learnings when applicable

Qualification

Machine LearningNatural Language ProcessingGraph Neural NetworksReinforcement LearningPythonModel ExplainabilityGCPAWSSnowflakeCuriosityDocumentationCollaboration

Required

6+ years of machine learning experience with a focus on modeling and deployment

A degree (preferable graduate level) in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Physics, Applied Math or a related technical field

Expertise in at least one area of the following areas: Natural Language Processing, Graph Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning, or model explainability

Prior experience working with product, engineering, and business to prioritize, scope, design, and deploy ML tooling and infrastructure at scale

An ability to clearly convey both technical and non-technical concepts while collaborating with cross-functional, globally distributed teams

Natural curiosity and desire to grow and help shape all aspects of our team

Benefits

Remote work

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Modern family planning

Company

Block

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Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment.

Founded in 1990

Oakland, California, US

10001+ employees

https://block.xyz/

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