Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Lead Data Scientist - Generative AI
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.
Overview
Our Data Science team is responsible for creating deep learning Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and Machine Learning (M.L.) models. The models generated are production ready and created to back specific products in Mastercard’s authentication and authorization networks. The Data Science team is also responsible for developing automated processes for creating models covering all modeling steps, from data extraction up to delivery. In addition, the processes must be designed to scale, to be repeatable, resilient, and industrialized.
As a Lead Data Scientist within the Security Solutions Data Science team, you will pilot groundbreaking Generative AI use cases aimed at revolutionizing sales enablement. By automating qualitative research and leveraging Mastercard’s network intelligence, your work will help us drive targeted, data-driven sales strategies that resonate with diverse industries and client needs.
The Role:
We are looking for a Lead Data Scientist with deep expertise in generative AI to spearhead projects that redefine how businesses approach automation, content creation, and predictive modeling. As a Lead Data Scientist within the Security Solutions Data Science team, you will pilot groundbreaking Generative AI use cases aimed at revolutionizing sales enablement. By automating qualitative research and leveraging Mastercard’s network intelligence, your work will help us drive targeted, data-driven sales strategies that resonate with diverse industries and client needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (data scientists, engineers, product managers, and sales) to design and develop innovative AI models that solve real-world problems.
• Build and optimize data pipelines for model creation, testing, and evaluation.
• Work with diverse datasets and deploy cutting-edge machine learning techniques to improve business outcomes.
• Share your insights by delivering best practices, tutorials, and tailored content to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of generative AI models, including natural language processing (NLP), deep learning (DL), and reinforcement learning (RL) approaches.
• Build and optimize large-scale machine learning pipelines to process vast datasets and enhance model performance.
• Conduct research on cutting-edge AI techniques, exploring novel applications of generative AI in areas like text generation, video synthesis, and automated content creation.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, providing insights and recommendations to drive business outcomes.
• Ensure the scalability and reliability of AI models in production environments.

All About You:

• Proven experience as a data scientist, especially in building large-scale machine learning or deep learning models (e.g., CNN, RNN).
• Strong expertise in Python and extensive experience building large scale machine learning models with LLM using technologies such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, MXNet or Keras.
• Knowledge of data pipeline tools like Apache NiFi, Airflow, or equivalents.
• Experience working with SQL, PostGreSQL and familiarity of working with large datasets and distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Hadoop, Spark,).
• Expertise in natural language processing (NLP), deep learning (DL), and other AI subfields.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud for AI model deployment.
• Strong problem-solving abilities, with an innovative mindset and a passion for exploring new AI frontiers.
• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related STEM field.

Nice to Have

• Experience with real-time model deployment and API integration.
• Familiarity with ethical AI practices and frameworks.
• Experience in reinforcement learning and decision-making models.

AI

Pay Ranges
Vancouver, Canada: $122,000 - $195,000 CAD
Mastercard is an inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

Pay Ranges
Vancouver, Canada: $122,000 - $195,000 CAD

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (data scientists, engineers, product managers, and sales) to design and develop innovative AI models that solve real-world problems.
• Build and optimize data pipelines for model creation, testing, and evaluation.
• Work with diverse datasets and deploy cutting-edge machine learning techniques to improve business outcomes.
• Share your insights by delivering best practices, tutorials, and tailored content to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of generative AI models, including natural language processing (NLP), deep learning (DL), and reinforcement learning (RL) approaches.
• Build and optimize large-scale machine learning pipelines to process vast datasets and enhance model performance.
• Conduct research on cutting-edge AI techniques, exploring novel applications of generative AI in areas like text generation, video synthesis, and automated content creation.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, providing insights and recommendations to drive business outcomes.
• Ensure the scalability and reliability of AI models in production environments

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines