Drimva

Uber

Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Risk and Trust

$232K–$258K

San Francisco, California +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026

Location
San Francisco, California
Sunnyvale, California
Experience
8+ years of industry experience developing machine-learning models and deploying ML solutions to production.
Education
Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field.

About the job

Leads development and production deployment of scalable machine-learning systems for fraud prevention, identity verification, account security, and risk detection.

What you'll do

  • Identify ML opportunities and help shape the team's technical roadmap with product, data science, and engineering partners.
  • Design and build robust ML solutions, owning their lifecycle from data preparation and modeling through testing, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Lead complex ML initiatives, promote engineering best practices, and mentor other machine-learning engineers.

What they ask for

  • 8+ years of industry experience developing machine-learning models and deploying ML solutions to production.
  • Master's degree in a related technical field.
  • Strong foundation in machine-learning algorithms, statistics, and optimization; demonstrated application of ML to complex, large-scale real-world problems.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience with modern ML frameworks, large-scale data pipelines, and distributed data processing.

Nice to have

  • PhD in a related technical field.
  • Experience with advanced ML techniques or ML for fraud detection, anomaly detection, adversarial environments, or large-scale real-time systems.

Pay

USD $232,000 per year - USD $258,000 per year base salary (San Francisco, CA); USD $232,000 per year - USD $258,000 per year base salary (Sunnyvale, CA)

Tools

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Spark, SQL

AI focus

Builds machine-learning risk and fraud prevention systems, including responses to increasingly sophisticated AI-driven attacks; preferred experience includes large language models.

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