This role pays more than
63%
of similar roles. Most pay
$197,925–$252,887
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$242k
versus about
$225k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Plaid
Plaid is a financial technology company that builds a data network powering digital finance applications, enabling consumers to securely connect their financial accounts to apps and services. Industry: Financial Technology & Data Infrastructure
Plaid currently has
98 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$190,800–$262,800
across 98 roles with salary data.
As a Research Scientist on Plaid’s Data Foundation & AI team, you will develop novel model architectures and pretraining objectives to enhance the company's foundation models for financial applications. Your day-to-day involves working across the entire machine learning stack, from data engineering and training pipelines to serving infrastructure and monitoring systems, ensuring reliable AI capabilities at scale. You will collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to adapt these models to solve specific business challenges, validate their impact through rigorous experimentation, and translate research advances into production-ready solutions. The role requires a strong background in machine learning, including experience with Transformers/LLMs, representation learning, and distributed training, as well as proficiency in Python and software engineering fundamentals. This position offers the opportunity to work on one of the world’s richest financial datasets, contributing to Plaid's mission of empowering hundreds of millions of consumers through data-driven products.