Staff Applied Machine Learning Engineer, Intelligent Data, Signals & Systems

Block

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$276,800–$415,200 / yr
Posted
7 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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This role $346k
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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 53 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Staff Applied Machine Learning Engineer, Intelligent Data, Signals & Systems

Careers - Staff Applied Machine Learning Engineer - Intelligent Data, Signals & Systems joins the Intelligent Data, Signals & Systems team to build production machine learning systems. The role focuses on transforming customer behavior and product context into trusted signals for ranking, retrieval, recommendations, search, and risk-aware decisioning. You will design data contracts, manage feature pipelines, and develop end-to-end systems for propensity, churn, and next-best-action logic while ensuring trust, fairness, and compliance. The work involves creating reusable signal interfaces for product surfaces and AI-assisted workflows. Required skills include expertise in Python, Java, Kotlin, SQL, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and XGBoost/LightGBM. You will also work with event streams, feature stores, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure to solve complex problems regarding customer intelligence and model-derived data products within the financial services and commerce ecosystem.

What you'll do

  • Build production ML systems that transform customer behavior and product context into trusted signals for ranking and recommendations.
  • Design data and signal contracts defining usage, freshness, provenance, confidence, and calibration for downstream consumers.
  • Manage end-to-end lifecycles for search, retrieval, propensity, and next-best-action systems from feature generation to monitoring.
  • Evaluate business impacts including trust, fairness, risk, compliance, and long-term engagement beyond short-term conversion metrics.
  • Translate ambiguous goals from cross-functional partners into measurable machine learning system designs.
  • Utilize AI and agents to accelerate development, testing, documentation, and the creation of reusable capabilities.

What we're looking for

  • You must have 12+ years of experience building and operating production software and ML systems for business-critical products.
  • You must possess deep expertise in intelligent systems such as ranking, retrieval, recommendations, search, and personalization.
  • You must demonstrate strong production ML judgment regarding feature pipelines, model serving, experimentation, monitoring, and feedback loops.
  • You must be able to evaluate impact beyond short-term conversion, including trust, fairness, risk, and compliance.
  • You must have experience using AI-assisted engineering tools with appropriate verification and testing for customer-impacting systems.
  • You should have experience with semantic retrieval, embeddings, two-tower models, or LLM-powered decision systems.
  • You should have experience with experimentation techniques like multi-objective optimization or counterfactual evaluation.
  • You should have experience building reusable feature platforms, decision services, and model-derived data products.

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