Engineering Manager, Machine Learning - Fraud Detection

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. Discord's Safety ML team builds the machine learning systems that protect 200M+ users. The team's mission is to make Discord a place where people can build genuine friendships without exposure to harm, at a scale where manual review alone can never keep up. We're looking for a highly technical, hands-on, and mission-driven Engineering Manager to lead our Safety ML team. As the manager responsible for Safety ML, you will own the detection systems that sit between attackers and our users; real-time and batch models for content understanding, account integrity, and platform abuse. What You'll Be Doing Build and lead an exceptional team of highly-engaged ML engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact. Drive the technical vision and roadmap for Safety ML by collaborating with your team and partners across Trust & Safety, Product, Policy, Legal, and Data Science. Own the end-to-end lifecycle of production safety models: defining new capabilities, measuring performance, and monitoring the operational health of systems that make millions of enforcement decisions per day. Manage processes and leverage your technical expertise to continually raise the bar and ensure your team delivers extraordinary results. Partner with Trust & Safety on label quality, golden sets, and automating manual investigations. Work with other Engineering Managers to continuously improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy . What you should have You have 5+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist, or Applied Scientist. You have 3+ years of ex

We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview Instacart's Fraud, Appeasement & Identity team protects the marketplace and everyone who depends on it: customers, shoppers, retailers, and brand partners. Within this team, the Identity Platform group builds and operates the core services that verify who our users are, secure their accounts, and provide trustworthy identity and eligibility signals to systems across Instacart. We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Identity and Risk Platform team. In this role, you'll own a critical part of Instacart's trust infrastructure across authentication, account lifecycle, identity verification, and graph and relationship modeling, while managing and developing a team of backend and platform engineers. Your work will directly influence fraud losses, account security, marketplace integrity, and Instacart's ability to scale responsibly while meeting

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. Plaid’s Network Health team protects Plaid and our network from fraud and abuse. We build robust, intelligent yet flexible risk platforms and services to empower risk detection, mitigation, and resolution across all Plaid products and applications. As Engineering Manager for Network Health, you will lead a growing, deeply technical team responsible for risk engineering at Plaid. You will set the long-term strategy and roadmap, translate evolving fraud scenarios and business requirements into technical priorities, and drive execution with a high technical bar. You will manage and grow software engineers, partner closely with embedded data scientists and machine learning engineers, and work hands-on with the data to identify trends and opportunities. This role is well suited to a high-agency leader who thrives in ambiguity and wants to remain close to the work while shaping a critical new team. Responsibilities: You’ll lead a team of 5 engineers and 2 embedded data scientists, developing them through clear goal setting, coaching, and feedback. You’ll drive the long-term Network Health strategy and roadmap, in close partnership with technical and product leaders across Plaid You’ll u

Role Overview We are seeking a highly experienced, data-driven Fraud Risk Management professional to lead our fraud detection, investigation, and regulatory compliance frameworks. In this role, you will be responsible for safeguarding our digital payments ecosystem (including UPI, IMPS, Wallets, and Merchant platforms) by engineering advanced risk rules, optimizing machine learning models, and leading high-performing operational teams. You will also act as a primary liaison with key regulatory bodies (RBI, NPCI) and Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) to ensure ironclad compliance and proactive risk mitigation. Key Responsibilities 1. Regulatory Compliance & Governance  Implement Circulars: Spearhead the end-to-end implementation of all fraud risk-related circulars and compliance mandates from the RBI, NPCI, and FIU.  Regulatory Confirmation: Own and ensure the timely, accurate submission of critical regulatory implementations on the PCOMP portal.  Stakeholder Liaison: Serve as the primary point of contact for ad-hoc risk inquiries from regulatory bodies and Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA).  Executive Reporting: Prepare and present advanced data analysis and high-level risk reports for Board-level forums, including the Risk Management Committee (RMC). 2. Risk Rule Engineering & Advanced Analytics  Rule Development: Codify, test, and deploy hundreds of high-impact risk rules (velocity, blacklists, compliance) using Python and SQL to counter emerging fraud vectors.  Data Analysis: Query and analyze large-scale transactional and profile data to identify patterns, build automated daily alert reports, and perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA).  ML Model Optimization: Partner cross-functionally with Tech and Data Science teams to refine and optimize Machine Learning/AI-driven risk models to boost detection efficiency and reduce false positives. 3. Fraud Investigations & Operations  Investigations: Lead end-to-end investigations into sophisticated digital payme

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. 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. Head of Engineering, Adyen Protect We are seeking a visionary and highly technical Head of Engineering to lead the development and scaling of Adyen Protect . Adyen Protect is our ML-first product suite designed to detect and mitigate payment fraud in real-time across billions of transactions. In this role, you will lead a specialized domain of four high-impact engineering teams dedicated to staying ahead of increasingly sophisticated global fraud networks. You will be the strategic driver behind our risk engine, ensuring that our ML models are not only accurate and performant but also transparent and actionable for the world's largest merchants. This is a role for a leader who thrives at the intersection of big data, predictive modeling, and high-availability systems. You will be responsible for ensuring that as Adyen grows, our ability to protect our merchants and their consumers remains world-class. What you’ll do: Vision & Strategy: Define and execute the technical roadmap for Adyen Protect, aligning Machine Learning capabilities with the evolving needs of global e-commerce and regulatory landscapes. Scale ML Operations: Lead four multidisciplinary teams in building and maintaining scalable infrastructure for model training, real-time scoring, and automated experimentation (A/B testing) at the millisecond level. Engineering E

About Bluevine Bluevine is the largest small business banking platform in the U.S., redefining how entrepreneurs manage their money. We create modern financial solutions, from checking and lending to payments and beyond, designed to help small business owners grow, thrive, and take control of their financial future. Our best-in-class technology, advanced security, and deep understanding of the small business community give our customers the confidence to focus on what they do best. Since 2013, we’ve supported more than 750,000 small businesses nationwide. Backed by leading investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, 83North, and Citi Ventures, our 500+ person global team shares one mission: to give small businesses the financial tools they need to succeed. We’re innovators driven by big ideas, collaboration, and real impact. Here, you’ll have the freedom to take ownership, grow your career, and make a difference for small business owners across America. Ready to shape what’s next? This is a hybrid role . At Bluevine, we pride ourselves on our collaborative culture, which we believe is best maintained through in-person interactions and a vibrant office environment. All of our offices have reopened in accordance with local guidelines, and are following a hybrid model. In-office days will be determined by location and discipline. Key Responsibilities: Generative AI Research: Explore and evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) and emerging generative AI techniques to identify impactful applications in data science. Model Fine-Tuning & Adaptation: Design and execute experiments to fine-tune or customize foundational models using domain-specific and internal datasets. Applied Generative AI Solutions: Leverage generative AI to enhance traditional machine learning use cases such as risk modeling, fraud detection, and customer analytics. Prompt Engineering & Evaluation: Develop effective prompting strategies and build robust evaluation and benchma