Sr. ML Engineer

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.

About the role

This role is suited for a specialist with deep expertise in MLOps, AWS cloud architecture, Kubernetes, and system design. You will own key modules of the ML platform, perform architectural reviews, and implement robust deployment standards. The team is tasked with building secure, scalable pipelines and serving infrastructure for both traditional ML and modern Generative AI (LLM) workloads. The successful candidate will act as a design authority for model deployment, infrastructure automation, and platform security, shaping best practices to enable data scientists and AI engineers to seamlessly transition models from research to production.

All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies and AI-assisted tools - such as AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude Code, CLine), advanced reasoning GenAI models, and enterprise productivity tools - to enhance engineering productivity and support everyday work.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Responsibilities

• ML Platform Architecture: Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly available Machine Learning infrastructure on AWS and Visa OnPrem.
• Kubernetes & Kubeflow Management: Deploy, configure, and manage Kubernetes clusters and Kubeflow to orchestrate complex ML training and deployment pipelines.
• Model Deployment & LLMOps: Build robust serving infrastructure to productionize machine learning models and Large Language Models (LLMs) using modern serving frameworks (e.g., vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, KServe, Triton).
• Cloud Security & Access Management: Design secure platform architectures utilizing AWS IAM (roles, policies, least privilege), VPCs, and security groups to ensure data and model security.
• System Design & Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Architect scalable cloud systems and automate infrastructure provisioning using tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• CI/CD & MLOps: Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for model training, testing, and deployment, ensuring seamless continuous integration.
• Cross-Functional Enablement: Partner closely with Data Scientists and AI Engineers to understand their compute and tooling needs, reducing friction in the model development lifecycle.
• Observability & Monitoring: Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting for ML models and underlying infrastructure (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana) to track system health, model drift, and latency.
• Modernization: Act as a technical guide to modernize legacy deployment pipelines and integrate emerging AI infrastructure technologies.

Requirements

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in developing and implementing scalable AI/ML models and algorithms.
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters and Kubeflow for ML pipelines.

Qualifications

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD).
• Experience in building ML serving infrastructure (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, KServe, Triton).
• Experience in implementing secure architectures (IAM, VPCs, least privilege).
• Experience with automating infrastructure with Terraform/CloudFormation.
• Experience with developing CI/CD pipelines for ML model deployment.
• Experience with implementing monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Cloud-agnostic experience welcomed.

U.S. Applicants Only.

Pay

The estimated salary range for this position is $130,700.00 to $202,300.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity.

Benefits

Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

Schedule

• Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.
• Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.