Senior AI Engineer, Big Data & AI Solutions
Mastercard
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This role pays less than 81% of similar roles. Most pay $161,287–$235,750 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $150k versus about $199k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, processing transactions between financial institutions and merchants using its extensive network of credit, debit, and prepaid card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services
Mastercard currently has 150 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $122,000–$207,000 across 142 roles with salary data.
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The Senior AI Engineer, Big Data & AI Solutions joins the Security Solutions Data Science team to develop AI and machine learning capabilities for the Safety Net product. This role focuses on protecting the global payments ecosystem from fraud and cyber threats by analyzing billions of transactions. You will build and enhance large-scale data and feature pipelines, transforming high-volume data into reliable inputs for machine learning models. Key responsibilities include supporting model development, deployment, and production performance while strengthening monitoring, observability, and drift detection. You will utilize Apache Spark, PySpark, Python, SQL, Databricks, Airflow, and Hadoop within CI/CD-driven environments. The role also involves applying MLOps practices and developing solutions using Generative AI, RAG, LLMs, or agentic AI to improve engineering workflows and operational efficiency.
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