Software Engineer, Machine Learning - Fraud

About the Team The Fraud Machine Learning team builds cutting edge models that play central roles in our important anti-fraud systems. We operate at a massive scale, risking billions of events across 20+ countries. We are looking for ML experts who can help us push the technology boundaries and make DoorDash the world’s most safe logistics engine! About the Role We’re looking for a passionate Applied Machine Learning engineer to join our team. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll be conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and validating algorithmic solutions to prevent, detect and mitigate fraud. You are excited about opportunities to introduce step function changes to our risking system. You will demonstrate a command of production level machine learning, experience solving end-user problems, and collaborate well with multi-disciplinary teams. You will report into the engineering manager on our Fraud Machine Learning team in our Operation Excellence organization. Once our offices reopen, we expect this role to be hybrid with some time in-office and some time remote. You're excited about this opportunity because you will... Develop production machine learning solutions to build a safe and frictionless shopping experience for a diverse and expanding retail space.  Partner with engineering and product leaders to help shape the product roadmap applying ML Mentor junior team members, and lead cross functional pods to create collective impact You can find out more on our ML blog here We're excited about you because you have... 2+ years of industry experience developing machine learning models ( both classical and deep learning) and shipping ML solutions to production. Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow or similar deep learning framework. M.S., or PhD. in Statistics, Computer Science, Math, Operations Research, Physics, Bioinformatics, Economics, or other quantitative fields Familiarity with a JVM language (Kotlin/Scala) Familiarity with multi-task learning, LLMs and anomaly detection Fraud domain knowledge   Notice to Applicants for Jobs Located in NYC or Remote Jobs Associated With Office in NYC Only We use Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT in NYC. As part of the hiring and/or promotion process, we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023, and resumed using Covey Scout for Inbound again on June 29, 2024. The Covey tool has been reviewed by an independent auditor. Results of the audit may be viewed here: Covey Compensation The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions.  Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future. In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information. DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others. To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here . See below for paid time off details: For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year. For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week). The national base pay ranges for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado. I4 $137,100 — $201,600 USD I5 $167,800 — $246,800 USD I6 $203,500 — $299,300 USD About DoorDash At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known