Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI is open at Plaid in San Francisco HQ (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $249K - $368K. Posted on Oct 21, 2026, and still on Plaid’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
, you will establish rigorous evaluation frameworks to measure model performance across diverse use cases and build scalable, repeatable pipelines that translate research into production impact. You will also partner closely with teams across the organization to define how products integrate with and adapt foundation models, enabling reusable ML infrastructure and reducing duplicated modeling efforts. As a senior…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Plaid’s careers page.
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