Machine Learning Engineer, Support Experience

Job Role

As a Machine Learning Engineer on the Support Experience team, you'll play a crucial role in enhancing our self-serve support experiences.

About the Team

The Support Experience engineering organization builds and improves Stripe's user support from end to end: how users get help within our products, how they get in touch with us when they have questions, and how our teams use internal tools to answer those questions.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement state-of-the-art ML models and large-scale ML systems for enhancing self-serve support capabilities, balancing ML principles, domain knowledge, and engineering constraints
• Develop and optimize contextual conversation models and ML-powered resolution flows for common support scenarios, using tools such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and XGBoost
• Create and refine pipelines for training and evaluating models in both offline and online environments, with a focus on improving support quality and user satisfaction
• Implement ML features that streamline information collection and processing for support agents, enhancing overall support efficiency
• Collaborate with product, strategy, and content teams to propose, prioritize, and implement new AI-driven support features and improve answer capabilities

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in ML/AI or related field (e.g. math, physics, statistics)
• 3+ years in AI/ML and backend engineering, including building and operating production ML systems at global scale with stringent SLOs,balancing reliability, latency, and cost,with privacy, security, and compliance by design.
• Deep and up-to-date applied LLM experience: RAG/embeddings, tool use/function calling, agentic planning/orchestration architectures, post-training methods, code generation, benchmarks and evaluations, etc.
• Familiarity with classical ML methods and common frameworks e.g. Pytorch, TensorFlow.
• Proficient in Python; strong distributed systems and data science fundamentals.
• Experience working closely with product management, design, other engineers, and other cross-functional partners.
• Strong technical leadership and communication: mentoring and elevating engineers, elevating AI/ML awareness and posture within organizations, setting architectural direction, and driving alignment in ambiguity.

Preferred Qualifications

• MS/PhD degree in ML/AI or related field (e.g. math, physics, statistics)
• Experience working in Java or Ruby codebases
• Experience designing, deploying, and owning Agentic LLM solutions (e.g., multi-step orchestrators, tool use/function calling) specifically for complex customer support or internal workflow automation.
• Comfortable working with distributed teams across multiple locations and time zones