About Visa:

Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do.  Our VisaNet network is capable of handling over 65,000 transaction messages per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks.

We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa’s sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

“Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.”

To ensure that Visa’s payment technology is available to everyone, everywhere requires the best in identity and risk solutions. The Risk and ID Product group explore new partnerships, modeling techniques and technologies to assure Visa remains the safest and most secure methods for digital payments.  Core to our efforts is leveraging our proprietary real-time technologies and rich data sets that spans more than 3 billion cards globally and captures more than 100 billion transactions in a single year. Our focus lies on building creative solutions that have an immediate impact on the business of our highly analytical partners. We are looking for Data Scientists who are equally passionate about the opportunity to use Visa’s rich data to tackle meaningful business problems. 

The position is based at Visa's headquarter in the San Francisco Bay Area (Foster City, CA or San Francisco, CA).

Responsibilities

• Be an out-of-the-box thinker who is passionate about brainstorming innovative ways to use our unique data to answer business problems
• Capable of doing meaningful research of new machine learning technologies focused in on the Risk and ID space
• Experienced programmer who can help the development team which supports Visa's real-time AI engine.
• Good team players who can partners with various stockholders to help refine our existing systems and models.

Can you take on the responsibilities described above? Then please apply! Independent of years of experience or educational background, successful candidates frequently have a mix of the following qualifications:

• Must be returning to school in Fall '19
• Preferred Master's degree. 
• Bachelor’s degree in an analytical field such as statistics, operations research, economics, computer science.
• Experience with extracting and aggregating data from large data sets using SQL, Hadoop or other tools
• Experience in understanding and analyzing data using statistical software (e.g., Python, SAS, R, Stata or others)

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.