PayPal Software Engineer 

United States, California, San Jose 

373769930

This job implements tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), follows internal conventions and procedures, makes technical decisions, collaborates with peers and project leads, and contributes to code and design reviews.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Implements tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), receiving structure and oversight from more experienced staff
• Follows well-established internal conventions and standard procedures
• Understands internal standards & processes an applies them to make technical decisions
• Collaborates with peers, manager, and project lead to gain understanding of tasks and review solutions
• May contribute to code & design reviews

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with global product and engineering teams todesign and implement AI and LLM solutionsaligned with business objectives.
• Design, develop, and deliver AI/ML models, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies to drive innovation.
• Analyze user behavior on existing solutions andenhance functionality using AI/ML-driven approaches.
• Develop and deliver solutions across all phases of thesoftware development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Buildplatforms that enable adoption of generative AIacross business processes.
• Participate indesign and architecture discussionswith product and engineering teams.
• Writeclean, well-documented, and maintainable codethat adheres to engineeringrequirements:availability,security, performance, scalability, self-serviceability, and observability.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Stay up to date with the latestAI/ML research, tools, and technologies, includingRAG, agents, and reasoning frameworks.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science or engineering.
• 2+ yearsof experience inNatural Language Processing (NLP)and machine learning.
• Strong knowledge ofNLP techniques: embeddings, attention mechanisms, sequence-to-sequence models, generative AI.
• Experience designing and implementingNLP and LLM models, includingAgentic AI workflows.
• Proficiency inPython, with extensive experience usingTensorFlow, PyTorch, and other ML libraries.
• Solid foundation insoftware engineering fundamentalsand stronganalytical/problem-solvingskills.
• Experience withBig Data technologies: BigQuery, Bigtable, Spark, Kafka, graph DBs, etc.
• Hands-on experience withgenerative AI frameworks: LLMs, RAG, ReAct, agents.
• Knowledge ofLangChainand modern LLM ecosystems (e.g.,GPT-4, Claude).
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages:Python, SQL, and Java.
• Fluent inwritten and spoken English.
• Ability toquickly adaptto new technologies and frameworks.
• Passion forinnovationanddeliveringhigh-qualityAI solutions.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $100,500 to $173,250

Our Benefits:

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