Square Inc.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI Platform
Square Inc., San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI Platform
Full-timeBlock is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more.All of Block's product services are organized into business units with their own product and engineering teams. Underneath, there's a connected platform team that supports the company. We are that platform. Within the platform, our team’s focus is on using AI to accelerate productivity across the company, automating routine tasks like knowledge retrieval and code migrations.We're looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Machine Learning Engineer that will help us leverage AI to build impactful tools across Block, with a focus on engineering velocity. You'll bring together content from across Block's business units and strategically build a foundational platform layer that will power AI applications. This unique opportunity will require you to build and maintain relationships with teams throughout Block and external vendors to collaborate on delivering highly visible and leveraged tools, as well as keep up with evolving AI technology. You’ll provide guidance to teams on what is possible with AI and help drive their AI product direction, in addition to collaboratively building those applications.You Will:Develop a scalable AI platform to host internal and external facing use cases.Improve internal productivity and engineering velocity by designing novel AI solutions to automate complex processes.Define the future of AI at Block as a part of a newly formed company-wide initiative.Collaborate across diverse teams to develop AI solutions by understanding and generalizing the problems of cross-functional stakeholders.Lead AI innovation by building and open sourcing advanced frameworks and tools to enhance internal workflows and set industry standards.Drive alignment with Block’s AI strategy by acting as a company AI expert and educating other teams about how to apply cutting-edge AI to their domains.You Have:5+ years of experience in training and deploying ML models, developing ML software, and shipping customer-facing ML products.Deep understanding of modern ML techniques (e.g. Large Language Models) and the ML lifecycle from data gathering, training, model evaluation, MLOps, and productionizing models.A desire to understand our clients’ needs in order to design tools and systems that solve our customer's problems.Passion for improving your productivity as a developer and intuiting the ideal developer experience.Ability to produce production-quality code and services incorporating testing, evaluation, monitoring, and exquisite documentation.Experience using any of the major cloud vendors for high scale production use cases.Strong communication skills (verbal and written) with technical and non-technical stakeholders.Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions.Full-time employee benefits include:Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance).Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account.Retirement Plans including company match.Employee Stock Purchase Program.Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance.Paid parental and caregiving leave.Paid time off (including 12 paid holidays).Paid sick leave (1 hour per 26 hours worked).Learning and Development resources.Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits.We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer.
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Full-timeBlock is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more.All of Block's product services are organized into business units with their own product and engineering teams. Underneath, there's a connected platform team that supports the company. We are that platform. Within the platform, our team’s focus is on using AI to accelerate productivity across the company, automating routine tasks like knowledge retrieval and code migrations.We're looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Machine Learning Engineer that will help us leverage AI to build impactful tools across Block, with a focus on engineering velocity. You'll bring together content from across Block's business units and strategically build a foundational platform layer that will power AI applications. This unique opportunity will require you to build and maintain relationships with teams throughout Block and external vendors to collaborate on delivering highly visible and leveraged tools, as well as keep up with evolving AI technology. You’ll provide guidance to teams on what is possible with AI and help drive their AI product direction, in addition to collaboratively building those applications.You Will:Develop a scalable AI platform to host internal and external facing use cases.Improve internal productivity and engineering velocity by designing novel AI solutions to automate complex processes.Define the future of AI at Block as a part of a newly formed company-wide initiative.Collaborate across diverse teams to develop AI solutions by understanding and generalizing the problems of cross-functional stakeholders.Lead AI innovation by building and open sourcing advanced frameworks and tools to enhance internal workflows and set industry standards.Drive alignment with Block’s AI strategy by acting as a company AI expert and educating other teams about how to apply cutting-edge AI to their domains.You Have:5+ years of experience in training and deploying ML models, developing ML software, and shipping customer-facing ML products.Deep understanding of modern ML techniques (e.g. Large Language Models) and the ML lifecycle from data gathering, training, model evaluation, MLOps, and productionizing models.A desire to understand our clients’ needs in order to design tools and systems that solve our customer's problems.Passion for improving your productivity as a developer and intuiting the ideal developer experience.Ability to produce production-quality code and services incorporating testing, evaluation, monitoring, and exquisite documentation.Experience using any of the major cloud vendors for high scale production use cases.Strong communication skills (verbal and written) with technical and non-technical stakeholders.Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions.Full-time employee benefits include:Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance).Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account.Retirement Plans including company match.Employee Stock Purchase Program.Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance.Paid parental and caregiving leave.Paid time off (including 12 paid holidays).Paid sick leave (1 hour per 26 hours worked).Learning and Development resources.Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits.We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer.
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