Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Customer Risk

This is Adyen

At Adyen, we’re engineered for ambition. We empower our teams with the culture and support they need to own their careers. The people of Adyen are motivated problem-solvers who tackle unique technical challenges at scale, delivering innovative and ethical solutions to help the world’s best businesses achieve their ambitions faster, and we’re looking for a motivated Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our team in Amsterdam.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

The Customer Risk team is at the front line of this platform, building the next-generation systems required to assess and mitigate risk in real time. They are responsible for keeping our platform safe, while maintaining a seamless experience for our legitimate global merchants.

They operate at the critical intersection of high-stakes security and massive scale. By leveraging Adyen’s global payment flow, they are building a greenfield risk engine from scratch that moves beyond traditional detection to sophisticated, real-time entity assessment. We are looking for our first Senior Machine Learning Engineer to lead this effort and help architect the future of risk at Adyen.

In this role, you will

Lead – Act as the foundational ML Engineer for the Customer Risk team, taking the lead on the next-generation risk system from initial ideation and design to full production deployment.

Build – Design and scale production-ready ML models for prediction, ranking, and embedding. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle, ensuring that our risk assessments are backed by robust, deep learning systems that can operate at Adyen’s massive scale.

Architect – Develop the core ML infrastructure required to power our risk engine. You will build and manage the data processing pipelines, model evaluation frameworks, and deployment strategies that allow us to assess risk in real time with high reliability.

Innovate – Bring our existing ML capabilities to the next level by introducing advanced software design and mo