Senior Machine Learning Scientist

About this role

About Us Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world

Progress starts with you. Job Description We are looking for a Senior ML Scientist to design and develop next‑generation AI and ML models that solve real‑world challenges in the payments ecosystem covering transaction monitoring, fraud detection, and risk mitigation across multiple Visa businesses. You will be part of cross-functional team of data scientists and ML engineers based out of Bangalore and collaborating globally, driving innovation in the Risk and Identity Solutions (RaIS) through advanced AI/ML technologies

You will combine deep technical expertise with ownership, velocity, and influence. You will drive the scientific roadmap at scale, ensuring models are aligned, explainable, and robust, and you’ll collaborate with world‑class experts while influencing product strategy in a high‑stakes domain. The position offers access to top‑tier compute, tools, and datasets, and a collaborative, innovative culture focused on shaping the future of global payments

Responsibilities: Extract insights from large-scale Visa datasets across business lines to define high-value, fit-for-purpose problems beyond payments - driving clarity and framing business impact with precision. Rapidly design, experiment, and deploy SOTA ML/AI models, owning the full lifecycle and ensuring solutions are scalable, measurable, and aligned with strategic goals. Lead future-forward AI/ML research, proactively identifying emerging techniques, publish

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