[Remote] Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Financial Crimes, Cash App

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cash App, a product of Block, is focused on redefining financial relationships through innovative solutions. The Staff Machine Learning Engineer will lead efforts in leveraging AI and machine learning to enhance the detection and reporting of financial crimes, ensuring a safe user experience while collaborating with various teams across the organization.


Responsibilities

  • Design, build, integrate and enhance batch inference services and tooling that support our LLM Copilot and Autopilot use cases
  • Unblock the modelers on the team with the infrastructure/tools necessary for development & production work including solving MLOps, data access, security and scalability issues
  • Develop prototypes and partner with modelers to encourage adoption of new tools and technologies and proactively identify and plan for future needs of our modelers
  • Lead by example by applying AI/ML and engineering best practices
  • Partner closely with Financial Crimes, AI/ML Platform and Product Engineering teams across Cash App and Block

Skills

  • 5+ years of combined Machine Learning and Engineering industry experience (full stack ML experience is strongly preferred)
  • A Masters or advanced degree in computer science, data science, operations research, applied math, stats, physics, or a related technical field
  • Familiarity with Linux/OS X command line, version control software (git), and general software development principles with a machine learning software development life-cycle orientation
  • Experience working with product, business, and engineering to prioritize, scope, design, and deploy ML models
  • Familiarity with Python computing stack, MySQL, Snowflake, Airflow, Java/Go
  • Hosted models for inference on public clouds like GCP, AWS and/or built micro-services to facilitate event based triggering, feature generation, model inference and downstream actioning

Company Overview

  • Cash App is a mobile payment service that allows users to send, receive, and store money. It is a sub-organization of Block. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://cash.app.

    • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Cash App has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 227 in 2025, 253 in 2024, 260 in 2023, 297 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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