Principal ML Scientist

Visa
Texas
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 217,900 - 349,000 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Experience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Communication","Mentoring","Collaboration","Continuous learning"]

Lead Visa’s GenAI platform strategy and execution within the VERA team, focusing on inference systems and AI posture. Drive scalable, secure distributed systems and platforms that power AI-driven solutions for issuers, merchants, and fintechs. Adopt generative and agentic AI to improve developer productivity and enable innovative products. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineering talent, and partner across security, privacy, and governance to deliver compliant, reliable solutions.

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Principal ML Scientist

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Job Summary

Lead Visa’s GenAI platform strategy and execution within the VERA team, focusing on inference systems and AI posture. Drive scalable, secure distributed systems and platforms that power AI-driven solutions for issuers, merchants, and fintechs. Adopt generative and agentic AI to improve developer productivity and enable innovative products. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineering talent, and partner across security, privacy, and governance to deliver compliant, reliable solutions.
Location: Texas
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and drive the technical strategy and architecture aligned to business goals while accelerating innovation.
  • •Architect, design, and code scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems and platforms.
  • •Lead adoption of Generative AI and Agentic AI to improve developer productivity and support product innovation.
  • •Establish best practices for software development, including CI/CD automation and DevOps, across the SSDLC.
  • •Provide GenAI technology leadership, mentor teams, and collaborate with security, privacy, governance, and business partners to deliver compliant solutions.
Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 217,900 - 349,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid LeaveLife InsuranceWellness StipendFsa/hsa

Key Requirements

  • •12+ years of work experience with a Bachelor’s degree (or 10+ years with an advanced degree, or 5+ years with a PhD).
  • •15+ years in software engineering, with strong experience architecting large-scale distributed systems.
  • •Proficiency in Java, Python, or GoLang and frameworks such as Spring, Node.js, and React.
  • •Experience with RESTful and gRPC APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, and strong inference systems skills.
  • •Hands-on cloud and DevOps experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Experience:5+ yearsPaymentsAIGenAIDistributed systemsCloudDevOps
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Technical leadershipCommunicationMentoringCollaborationContinuous learning
Tech Stack:Generative AIAgentic AIInference systemsJavaPythonGoLangSpringNode.jsReactRESTful APIsGRPCMicroservicesEvent-driven systemsCI/CDDevOpsSSDLCAWSAzureGCPDocker

Company Brief

Visa
Global payments technology company that operates the VisaNet electronic payments network, facilitating credit, debit and digital transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and governments worldwide.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 1958
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