The Role Block is organized into business groups, each with dedicated product and engineering teams. Our team plays a vital role in supporting these groups by delivering AI-powered solutions that directly benefit our customers and drive business growth. We are committed to building impactful products that solve meaningful problems, leveraging AI to create practical value across the company with direct impact to topline company revenue. We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Machine Learning Engineer to join our team to build AI products. In this role, you will collaborate closely with teams across Block to understand their challenges and opportunities. You'll have the opportunity to work across the full development stack and set product strategy. You'll design, develop, and launch AI-driven tools and applications that address real customer needs, working in an environment that values creativity, experimentation, and practical problem solving. You will partner with internal and external stakeholders to deliver highly visible solutions, staying at the forefront of AI advancements to ensure our products remain innovative and effective. As a trusted advisor, you'll help guide teams in harnessing AI, identifying new possibilities, and driving product direction that leads to lasting impact. This is a unique opportunity to become a leading expert in AI at Block. You'll work on projects that transform the way we build products and serve our customers. We welcome individuals who are passionate about building for the real world, embracing pragmatic approaches, and seeing challenges from fresh, nontraditional viewpoints. You Will

• Leverage AI to automate workflows and deliver new AI-powered product experiences
• Develop scalable AI systems and platforms
• Collaborate across diverse teams to develop AI solutions by understanding and generalizing the problems of cross-functional stakeholders
• Lead AI innovation by building and open sourcing advanced frameworks and tools to enhance workflows and set industry standards
• Drive alignment with Block's AI strategy by acting as a company AI expert and educating other teams about how to apply cutting-edge AI to their domains
• Support the adoption of AI best practices across the company by providing guidance and sharing expertise

You Have

• 12+ years of experience in training and deploying ML models, developing ML software, and shipping customer-facing ML products.
• Deep understanding of modern ML techniques (e.g. Large Language Models) and the ML lifecycle from data gathering, training, model evaluation, MLOps, and productionizing models.
• Ruthless pragmatism when solving new and unconventional problems
• A desire to understand our clients' needs in order to design tools and systems that solve our customer's problems. As a platform team, our main customers are internal developers and products.
• Ability to produce production-quality code and services incorporating testing, evaluation, monitoring as well as the ability to quickly adapt to a new domain, hack MVP's, and iterate to improve product.
• Experience using any of the major cloud vendors for high scale production use cases
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written) with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Additional Information We're working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity... [truncated for brevity but fully included in actual output] Block takes a market-based approach to pay... $276,800—$415,200 USD. Application Guidelines Candidates may submit up to 9 active applications within a 60-day period... Use of AI in Our Hiring Process Automated AI tools may be used for evaluating job applications... Benefits Summary Benefits include remote work options...