Senior Machine Learning Engineer

At Adyen, we’re engineered for ambition. We empower our teams with the culture and support they need to own their careers. The people of Adyen are motivated problem-solvers who tackle unique technical challenges at scale, delivering innovative and ethical solutions to help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

Adyen is building a dispute intelligence function. The team will be building ML and AI applications to make our dispute product more intelligent. We’re looking for someone with an optimization mindset, looking for an opportunity which allows for continuous experimentation and improvement by enriching the algorithms context (structured and unstructured data).

The challenge for the person refers to a greenfield opportunity, allowing for Disputes Machine Learning and AI use cases to be built from the ground up. You’ll be working side-by-side with both the Data Engineers and Machine Learning Scientists with respect to disputes data, and with the disputes engineering team who are owning the dispute product as a whole.

AML Tech:

Adyen's Anti-Money Laundering team processes massive transaction volume to detect complex financial crime and cover a wide range of customer risks. We currently run a hybrid stack of business rules and machine learning models - with a clear mission to systematically reduce our dependence on static rules and transition to a modern, model-first detection engine.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you'll play a critical role in this evolution. You will architect scalable batch processing pipelines, tackle hard technical challenges like extreme class imbalance and incomplete ground truth, and drive production ML systems that will make financial world safer for everyone.

• Develop and maintain production ML pipelines for data ingestion, training, validation, and deployment. Examples ML domains are: on-line learning algorithms to pick the best optimization decision in a changing environment, clustering algorithms to group customers/shoppers, supervised and semi-supervised learning methods for inference on risk patterns or graph analysis, representation learning for behavior prediction and monitoring, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) systems and real-time anomaly detection based on time-series modeling;
• Identify and fix performance bottlenecks in ML training and inference (memory consumption, online latency, training time etc.);
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate ML solutions into products and services;
• Collaborate with data scientists to transition research prototypes into scalable solutions;
• Collaborate with MLOps and platform teams to integrate effectively with current tools, and shape priority for future tools;
• Support and encourage good engineering practices on product ML teams;

• You have 5+ years of experience as an engineer working in the machine learning domain;
• You are a strong Python programmer;
• You have experience with the full machine learning model lifecycle in production flows;
• You have experience leveraging big data to create the pipelines needed to feed the models with appropriate data;
• You have a strong understanding of good software engineering practices as well as data engineering and MLOps principles;
• You have knowledge of data science, statistics and machine learning techniques;
• You have strong familiarity with the standard data science toolkit in python, such as (py)spark, (Trino) SQL, Tensorflow, PyTorch, XGBoost/LightGBM, Pandas, MLFlow or similar MLOps frameworks, and Airflow;
• You have knowledge/experience of working with ML infrastructure components with tools such as k8s, docker, airflow, argo-workflows, prometheus, grafana
• You have an experimental mindset with a launch fast and iterate mentality;
• You proactively take the lead in projects, from ideation to deployment. You have experience working with a wide range of stakeholders and can clearly communicate complex outcomes over a wide range of audiences.

• You have experience with distributed GPU compute environments
• You have experience working with a Machine Learning ‘Feature Store’

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen. 

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

This is a full-time position based in our Amsterdam office, and it requires relocation if you are currently living outside of the Netherlands.