Paypal

Actively Hiring

Ai Engineer

Tel Aviv, Israel

Full time

Role Overview

We're looking for a hands-on AI professional with strong research and development skills to drive the research, development, and continuous improvement of our AI solutions, from initial exploration through to production.

About Paypal

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years, creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure.

Key Responsibilities

Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Advises immediate management on project-level issues
Guides junior engineers
Research, prototype and deliver new LLM-based solutions, and continuously improve existing ones
Design experiments and evaluation frameworks to confirm that AI solutions perform as intended
Maintain and monitor AI services and data pipelines in the cloud
Identify opportunities where AI tools can support teams across the organization
Present results and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Requirements & Eligibility

3+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, ML engineering or applied AI
Excellent Python and strong programming fundamentals
A track record of production-ready code: reliable, tested, observable systems
Hands-on experience with LLMs: prompting, structured outputs, evaluation and cost control
Experience with AI agents, both building agentic workflows and using AI coding agents
Strong data science foundations: experimental design, evaluation metrics, error analysis, building ground-truth datasets, data analysis and cleaning, statistics, and data visualization
Hands-on experience with AWS, SQL and PySpark

Required Skills & Tech

PythonLLMsAWSSQLPySparkDatabricksAzure OpenAI