Senior AI Engineer

About Us:

Riskified empowers businesses to unleash e-commerce growth by mitigating risk. We provide guaranteed protection against chargebacks, combat fraud and policy abuse at scale, and improve customer retention for many of the world's largest brands. Our AI-powered fraud and risk intelligence platform analyzes individual interactions to deliver real-time decisions and robust, identity-based insights.

About the Role:

Riskified is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join our fast-moving AI Engineering team, the central hub for AI innovation across the company. You will drive innovation and apply AI to enhance every team and product.

About the Team:

This team tackles strategic, company-wide initiatives, shaping Riskified's direction. As senior individual contributors, you will collaborate closely with product, business development, account management, and other partners, reporting to the Chief Architect and working in partnership with the CTO. This role offers the opportunity to influence not only our technologies but also our organizational processes. It requires technical depth, organizational navigation skills, and the ability to build relationships at all levels, from engineers to C-suite leadership.

Why Join Us?

This is a compelling opportunity to work at the forefront of the AI revolution, helping define and build the AI platform that will power Riskified's future. You will develop infrastructure for autonomous and interactive agents, establish robust evaluation frameworks and AI guardrails, and implement cutting-edge AI and agentic design patterns. This role is a distinctive entry point into the AI space, offering significant growth for those with AI infrastructure experience, guiding Riskified's transition from experimentation to fully productized, AI-driven solutions.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Design, build, and maintain reusable AI capabilities, including models, tools, APIs, and platforms for internal operations and customer-facing products.
• Develop and maintain our internal MCP server, providing AI agents with secure and easy access to Riskified's extensive data stores.
• Create and implement rigorous evaluation frameworks and AI guardrails to ensure model reliability and protect Riskified's value.
• Cultivate deep expertise and establish sustainable AI engineering practices across the organization.
• Champion AI readiness and track adoption company-wide to build lasting impact.
• Build and optimize RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems.
• Own projects end-to-end, from requirement gathering with non-technical stakeholders to development, deployment, and ongoing operation.
• Serve as a consultant and advocate for AI engineering, guiding other teams in leveraging created platforms and tools.
• Collaborate with teams throughout Riskified to accelerate AI adoption and productization.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of solid backend and server-side development experience, building complex, highly scalable systems.
• Proven proficiency in at least one general-purpose language (Python preferred).
• A natural collaborator skilled in building trust across functions, comfortable working with non-technical partners and translating their needs into technical solutions.
• Strong product-oriented thinking, with the ability to elicit, refine, and prioritize requirements from non-technical stakeholders.
• A deep sense of ownership, some DevOps experience, and the drive to develop, deploy, and operate projects from start to finish.
• Ability to navigate an organization and influence without authority, communicating effectively with engineers, managers, and C-suite leadership.
• A bias toward driving change: identifying and acting on opportunities to improve processes and accelerate technology adoption.
• High proficiency with AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor).
• Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

Bonus Points If You:

• Are experienced with agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot CLI).
• Have familiarity with Strands Agents (or comparable frameworks), RAG architectures, and Bedrock.
• Have worked with MCP (Model Context Protocol).
• Are comfortable operating in containerized environments.

Life at Riskified:

Riskified is a fast-growing, dynamic tech company with over 750 team members globally. We value collaboration and innovative thinking. Some of our Tel Aviv benefits include:

• Equity, Keren Hishtalmut, pension.
• Private medical insurance, extra time off for parents and caregivers.
• Commuter and parking benefits.
• Team events, fully-stocked kitchen, lunch stipend, happy hours, yoga, pilates, functional training, basketball, soccer.
• Opportunities to volunteer and make an impact.
• Commitment to professional development with global onboarding, skills-based courses, full access to Udemy, lunch & learns.
• Riskified gifts and swag.

Riskified is deeply committed to equal opportunity and does not discriminate based on protected characteristics.