Senior Machine Learning Engineer I // Senior Machine Learning Engineer II

Budapest, Hungary Until 9/12/2026 3+ years exp H-1B sponsor history First posted March 24, 2026 Last posted July 14, 2026
Job description

At Signifyd, we help merchants confidently grow their businesses by building trusted relationships with their customers. Our advanced technology, combined with a team genuinely invested in our clients’ success, creates frictionless shopping experiences, approving more good orders, protecting revenue, and keeping customers happy.

Trusted by thousands of leading merchants across more than 100 countries, we securely process billions of transactions each year. Our people are the heart of everything we do, driving our mission forward with commitment, empathy, and creativity. Join us on our mission to empower confident, fraud-free commerce by helping online retailers provide superior customer experiences and eliminate fraud. Learn about our company values here!

Signifyd’s Machine Learning team builds production ML models and risk management tools that are the core of Signifyd's product. These models are an integral part of all our products.

We help businesses of all sizes minimize their fraud exposure and grow their sales. We improve the e-commerce shopping experience for everyone by reducing the number of false positive declines of good buyers and by making fraud less profitable for criminals.

The team has end-to-end ownership of our decision-making engine, from research and development to online performance and risk management.

We value collaboration and team ownership - no one should feel they're solving a hard problem alone.

Together, we help each other develop our skillsets through peer review of experiments and code, group paper study to deepen our ML and stats understanding, and frequent knowledge-sharing through live demos, write-ups, and special cross-team projects.

How you'll have an impact:

  • Research emerging fraud patterns in real-time with our Risk Intelligence team
  • Improve the important components of the Signifyd Commerce Protection Platform
  • Communicate complex ideas to a variety of audiences, including executives
  • Build production machine learning models that identify fraud
  • Write production and offline code in python, PySpark
  • Work with distributed data pipelines
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to strengthen our machine-learning pipeline

Past experience you'll need:

  • A degree in computer science or a comparable analytical field
  • 3+ years of post-undergrad work experience required
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong machine learning and statistical background, and a track record of being able to deliver under pressure.
  • Write code and review others' in a shared codebase in Python
  • Practical SQL knowledge
  • Design experiments and collect data
  • Familiarity with the Linux command line

Bonus points if you have:

  • Previous work in fraud, payments, or e-commerce
  • Data analysis in a distributed environment
  • Passion for writing well-tested production-grade code
  • A Master's Degree or PhD
 
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Benefits:

  • Stock Options
  • Annual Performance Bonus or Commissions
  • Pension matched up to 3%
  • ‘Day one’ access to great health insurance scheme
  • Paid team social events
  • Mental wellbeing resources
  • Dedicated learning budget through Learnerbly
About this role

Summary

Build and optimize machine learning models for fraud detection in e-commerce.

Job title

Senior Machine Learning Engineer I // Senior Machine Learning Engineer II

Experience level

3+ years

Minimum experience

3+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Budapest, Hungary; some remote work allowed

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

pythonPySparkSQLmachine learningstatisticsLinux

Preferred skills

fraudpaymentse-commercedistributed data analysisproduction-grade code

Specializations

machine learningpythonPySparkSQLrisk management
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Budapest, Hungary

Hybrid City