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AI Engineer, Senior

AI summary of the role

Pathward is hiring a Senior AI Engineer to research, develop, and deploy AI/ML models that solve business challenges and enable financial inclusion.

What you’ll do

  • Research, design, and develop AI/ML models to solve business challenges and enable human-like intelligence capabilities.
  • Identify and evaluate opportunities for leveraging AI technologies across the organization and recommend AI-driven solutions.
  • Collect, prepare, and preprocess data from various sources for model training, including data cleaning, feature engineering, and data pipelines.
  • Train, validate, and optimize AI models using appropriate algorithms and frameworks, ensuring robustness and ethical practices.

What you’ll bring

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and work experience.
  • Typically 5+ years with bachelor's or equivalent.

Technologies

AI · machine learning · data pipelines · APIs · microservices · feature engineering · model training · model optimization

About Pathward

National bank (formerly Meta Financial) providing sponsor-bank BaaS infrastructure, payments, consumer lending and tax-refund solutions to fintechs, retailers and tax preparers.

Public · 1000–2000 people

Source and classification

Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:

strongest when we embrace the voices of our employees, customers, partners, and the communities we serve. About the Role: Responsible for researching, developing, and implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to enable machines to simulate human intelligence by perceiving, reasoning, learning, and making decisions. Identifies opportunities for leveraging AI technology and optimizes existing AI models or develops custom solutions for specific applications. Prepares data for AI model training and trains, validates, and optimizes models. Integrates AI technologies into existing workflows. What You Will Do: Research, design, and develop artificial intelligence and machine learning models to solve business challenges and enable machines to simulate human intelligence through perception, reasoning, learning, and decision-making capabilities. Identify and evaluate opportunities
More from the job description

We are a hybrid, remote-office company dedicated to growing our talent anywhere! We have onsite locations in: Sioux Falls, SD, Scottsdale, AZ, Louisville, KY, Troy, MI, Franklin, TN, Easton, PA. At Pathward, we take tremendous pride in our purpose to create financial inclusion for all™. We are a financial empowerment company that works with innovators to increase financial availability, choice, and opportunity for all. We strive to remove barriers that traditional institutions put in the way of financial access, and promote economic mobility by providing responsible, secure, high quality financial products. We are a team of problem solvers and innovators who celebrate our differences and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger and well-positioned for success. We celebrate, and embrace, our team members through our *HUMBLE*HUNGRY*SMART approach, and we believe that we are strongest when we embrace the voices of our employees, customers, partners, and the communities we serve. About the Role: Responsible for researching, developing, and implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to enable machines to simulate human intelligence by perceiving, reasoning, learning, and making decisions. Identifies opportunities for leveraging AI technology and optimizes existing AI models or develops custom solutions for specific applications. Prepares data for AI model tra [... source excerpt omitted ...] ces. Integrate AI solutions into existing systems, applications, and workflows by developing APIs, microservices, or interfaces that enable seamless deployment and scalability in production environments. Monitor and maintain deployed AI models through performance tracking, troubleshooting, and iterative improvements to ensure continued effectiveness and alignment with business objectives. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data scientists, software engineers, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions and communicate complex AI concepts to non-technical audiences. Other duties as assigned. What You Will Need: Bachelor's degree [... source excerpt omitted ...] ximum target for a new hire in this role. Individual pay within the range will be determined by multiple factors which can include but are not limited to a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary for your location during the hiring process. Ranges may be modified in the future. This role is also eligible for an annual performance-based incentive opportunity. Pathward offers a comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees, including health insurance, 401(k) retirement benefits, life insurance, disability benefits, paid time off, and more. #LI-Remote Don’t have everything listed under qualifications?

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