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Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI

Plaid is hiring for Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI in San Francisco HQ. Staff level. First seen August 6, 2026; open as of November 11, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Plaid
Where
San Francisco HQ
Level
Staff
First seen
August 6, 2026
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will lead the technical strategy and development of Plaid’s foundation models, driving key decisions across pretraining objectives, model architecture, and fine-tuning approaches that power a wide range of downstream product applications. You will serve as the technical lead for the full machine learning lifecycle, overseeing everything from data curation and experimentation to production deployment, feature management, and observability. In this role, you will establish rigorous evaluation frameworks to measure model performance across diverse use…

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