Careers - Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Model Risk Management

Block

Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$189,000–$283,600 / yr
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This role pays more than 60% of similar roles. Most pay $177,762–$259,212 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $236k versus about $218k for comparable roles.

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About Block

Block, Inc. (formerly Square) is a financial technology company operating the Square merchant payments ecosystem, Cash App peer-to-peer payments, TIDAL music streaming, and Bitcoin-focused financial services. Industry: Financial Technology & Payments

Block currently has 56 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Careers - Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Model Risk Management

As a senior individual contributor in Model Risk Management at Block, you will independently challenge model owners across lending, fraud, and AML by reproducing their results, setting acceptance thresholds, and validating models for soundness. You will identify silent errors that distort metrics and ensure evaluation methods hold up under real-world conditions. This role involves hands-on work in unfamiliar codebases, shipping production code for validation tooling, and building agentic systems to validate cutting-edge AI tools. You must have a deep understanding of various ML techniques, strong software engineering skills with Python and SQL, and fluency in modern AI development tools like Claude Code and Copilot. Familiarity with model risk management frameworks and fair-lending standards is beneficial, as you will communicate complex findings to stakeholders and operate under ambiguity across diverse teams.

What you'll do

  • Independently challenge model owners to reproduce results and set acceptance thresholds.
  • Identify silent errors in models that cause metrics to misrepresent performance.
  • Develop evaluation methods robust under real-world conditions like rare events and population shifts.
  • Work hands-on in unfamiliar codebases, learning data and configurations to ship production validation tooling.
  • Build agentic validation tooling for parallel agent orchestration and oversight of advanced AI systems.
  • Reason about ML systems end-to-end to evaluate design decisions and challenge model owners effectively.

What we're looking for

  • Senior-level experience in building or validating models in high-stakes domains like credit, fraud, or financial crime.
  • Expertise in challenging model owners through reproduction, benchmarking, and stress testing to ensure model soundness.
  • Proficiency in various machine learning techniques including regression, tree ensembles, and deep learning with a focus on evaluation and generalization.
  • Strong software engineering skills in Python, SQL, and data engineering for production-quality code and large datasets.
  • Experience with modern AI tools and frameworks, including LLMs and agentic systems, to validate advanced models.
  • Knowledge of model risk management frameworks and fair-lending standards, with the ability to define validation processes for new technologies.

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