Staff Applied Machine Learning Engineer - Fraud & Abuse
Block
San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 276,800 - 415,200 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 12+ yearsSkills: ["Python","Java","Kotlin","SQL","TensorFlow","PyTorch","XGBoost","LightGBM","Embeddings","Kafka","Kubernetes","Cloud","Data warehouses","Model serving","Monitoring"]Lead and operate production ML decision systems to reduce payment fraud, account takeover, identity abuse, and marketplace risk across Block. Own end-to-end production lifecycle, integrate diverse signals, and collaborate with engineers, risk analysts, compliance, and operations to balance fraud loss with user access, while maintaining high-stakes safety and human oversight.

