The Company

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. 

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.  Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. 

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Description Summary:

Job Description:

PayPal, Inc. seeks Machine Learning Engineer 2 in San Jose, CA

Job Duties: Develop and validate advance data mining tools, algorithms, and other capabilities to solve business problems. Collaborate with other research scientists and engineers to formulate innovative solutions to experiment and implement advanced data mining techniques.  Work with large volumes of data; extract and manipulate large datasets using standard tools such as Python, Hadoop, R, SQL. Analyze data covering a wide range of information from user profile to transaction history.  Identify new risk patterns through data mining.  Communicate complex concepts and the results of the analyses in a clear and effective manner through creative visualization.  Write clean, high-performance, high-quality, maintainable code to process data related to payment processing from PayPal and its partners, such as code to clean and transform data from various data sources, tools, and vendors, into usable tables and files.  Develop novel data mining techniques and algorithms to ensure the quality of the data as well as to maintain its secure storage and use at PayPal.  Utilize data to address complex business requirements at PayPal, by applying data mining and machine learning algorithms to extract underlying patterns and business insights in the data. Telecommuting permitted - work can be performed from anywhere in the US

 Minimum Requirements: Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Statistics, Data Science, or a closely related field plus one year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

 Special Skill Requirements

1. Machine Learning, recommendations systems, pattern recognition, datamining. Developing machine learning models at scale from inception to business impact.

2. Predictive Analytics – Developing highly scalable classifiers and tools leveraging machine learning, data regression, and rules based models.

3. Statistics

4. Data Science

5. Data Analysis

6. Data Cleaning

7. Python Data Engineering – Adapting standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments: distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU.

8. Data Structures and Algorithms

EOE, including disability/vets.

Additional Job Description:

 Base salary: $140,000-204,600 per annum. 40 hours per week; M-F, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The total compensation for this position includes standard company benefits and is based on various factors including but not limited to relevant skills and experience.  Your recruiter can share more information about our total compensation package during the hiring process.

Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

Who We Are:

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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion 

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.  In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.  If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].  

Belonging at PayPal: 

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

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We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.