Nubank

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Nubank
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15 hours ago
São Paulo, BrazilStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Frame ambiguous business problems as well-defined machine learning problems.
  • Design, build, validate, train, tune, deploy, and monitor machine learning models.
  • Engineer and maintain features and datasets for training and inference.
  • Deploy models in batch and real-time environments and integrate them with other systems.
  • Lead modeling projects end to end, including stakeholder alignment, delivery, monitoring, and iteration.
  • Contribute to the design, documentation, maintenance, and optimization of modeling codebases, platforms, and tooling.
  • Partner with technical and business stakeholders to define modeling strategies aligned with Nubank’s architecture and goals.
  • Share knowledge, mentor peers, and contribute to ML and data literacy initiatives.

Requirements

  • Strong foundation in statistics, machine learning theory, and modeling techniques such as regression, tree-based models, and deep learning.
  • Programming experience in Python and familiarity with machine learning libraries such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and XGBoost.
  • Experience training, validating, and tuning models, with understanding of overfitting, bias-variance tradeoff, and evaluation metrics.
  • Understanding of the machine learning model lifecycle from training and evaluation through deployment and monitoring.
  • Ability to write efficient SQL queries and work with analytical data environments.
  • Strong communication skills for collaboration with technical and business stakeholders.
  • Preferred: experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure; distributed systems, microservices, and asynchronous architectures; feature stores, MLOps tooling, and experiment tracking.
  • Preferred: knowledge of data architecture patterns such as data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts.
  • Preferred: experience with Looker, Power BI, Tableau, or similar data visualization tools.
  • Knowledge of software engineering best practices including testing, clean code, and documentation.

Benefits

  • Equity-earning opportunity at Nubank.
  • Food or meal card, public transportation commuting benefit, and work-from-home allowance.
  • NuCare psychological, financial, and legal assistance program.
  • Life insurance, medical plan, and dental plan.
  • NuLanguage language course program and Nucleo learning platform.
  • Extended parental leave, daycare allowance, and parental consultancy.
  • Gym partnerships and 30 days of paid vacation.
  • Relocation assistance package, if applicable.
  • Hybrid work model requiring office attendance at least two to three times per week.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowAWSAzureGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesMLflowPythonPyTorchscikit-learnSQLTensorFlowXGBoost

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Nubank

About Nubank

10,000+ employees

Nubank is a digital banking platform for consumers and small businesses in Latin America, offering a no-fee credit card, accounts, payments, lending, and investments through Nu Asset Management. It monetizes via interchange, interest, and product fees within its app-based ecosystem. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in São Paulo, it serves over 100 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia and is listed on the NYSE (ticker: NU).

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