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NubankMachine LearningRemote

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

São PauloFull-timeLeadSalary: Not disclosed
Posted Sep 15, 2026Deadline: Nov 21, 2026
Job SnapshotActively hiring
LocationSão Paulo
Job typeFull-time
SalaryNot disclosed
DeadlineNov 21, 2026

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PythonSQLAWSGCPAzureKubernetesFraudMachine LearningTableauPower BI

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What you'll own

Own the full ML lifecycle—from framing ambiguous business problems, engineering features, training and validating models, to deploying and monitoring them in batch and real‑time production.

What they're looking for

Strong foundation in statistics and ML theory, solid Python coding with libraries like scikit‑learn, PyTorch or TensorFlow, SQL skills, and the ability to communicate with both technical and business stakeholders.

Why this role matters

Your models power credit, fraud, risk and personalization decisions for over 140 million customers, making ML the core engine of Nubank’s mission to simplify finance and drive growth.

Best suited to

Engineers who thrive in small, fast‑moving teams, enjoy end‑to‑end production ML work, mentor peers, and are eager to learn and apply modern MLOps and cloud tooling.

Fintech requirements

Visa sponsorship: No
Work arrangement: remote

About this role

About Nu

Nu serves more than 140 million customers, guided by a mission to fight complexity and empower people. The company has been leading an industry transformation through innovative products and human-centered services.

Proprietary technology and data at scale power Nu’s digital platform, built to promote financial access, advancement, and transparency. Its business model thrives on customer love and lower costs, feeding a flywheel of growth and profitability.

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Machine Learning Engineer at Nubank

At Nubank, Machine Learning Engineers sit at the core of how we make decisions at scale. We build, train, and deploy models that drive credit, fraud, risk, personalization decisions and a growing set of AI-native experiences for millions of customers every day. We do it with engineering rigor, statistical depth, and a deep focus on impact.

Our MLEs work across the full modeling lifecycle: framing business problems as ML problems, engineering features, training and validating models, and deploying and monitoring them in production. We value small, independent teams that move fast, own their decisions end-to-end, and hold themselves to a high bar for quality and craft.

Increasingly, that work also includes Generative AI and Agentic Engineering. Depending on the problem, our engineers design and build systems that combine models, tools, workflows, evaluation loops, and human oversight to solve real business tasks reliably in production.

We strive for state-of-the-art ML practices that currently include a variety of technologies. While we value candidates that are familiar with them, we are also confident that engineers who are interested in joining Nubank will be able to learn from our team.

  • Large-scale model training and experimentation pipelines
  • Feature engineering and feature stores feeding both batch and real-time models
  • Model deployment and serving in production, with monitoring through operational and business metrics
  • Distributed data processing for training datasets at scale
  • Continuous Integration and Deployment into AWS and Kubernetes
  • Experiment tracking, model versioning, and reproducibility tooling
  • A robust data platform built on modern ETL/ELT practices

As a Machine Learning Engineer, you’re expected to

  • Frame ambiguous business problems as well-defined modeling problems
  • Design, build and validate machine learning models, ensuring statistical rigor and business relevance
  • Engineer and maintain features and datasets used for training and inference
  • Deploy and maintain ML models in both batch and real-time scenarios, integrating them with other systems and monitoring through operational and business metrics
  • Lead modeling projects end-to-end — from problem framing and stakeholder alignment to delivery, monitoring and iteration
  • Contribute to the design, documentation, maintenance and optimization of our modeling codebase, platforms and tooling
  • Translate business needs into modeling strategies aligned with Nubank's architecture and long-term goals
  • Partner with technical and business stakeholders to define strategies and deliver high-impact models
  • Share knowledge, mentor peers and contribute to ML and data literacy initiatives across Nubank

What We're Looking For

  • Strong foundation in statistics, machine learning theory and modeling techniques (e.g. regression, tree-based models, deep learning)
  • Programming experience in Python and familiarity with ML libraries (e.g. scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost)
  • Experience training, validating, and tuning models, with solid understanding of overfitting, bias-variance tradeoff and evaluation metrics
  • Understanding of the ML model lifecycle, from training and evaluation to deployment and monitoring
  • Ability to write efficient SQL queries and work with analytical data environments
  • Strong communication skills to collaborate with both technical and business stakeholders
  • Passion for building high-quality, production-grade models

Nice to have

  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure
  • Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices and asynchronous architectures
  • Experience with feature stores, MLOps tooling and experiment tracking (e.g. MLflow, Feast, Airflow)
  • Knowledge of data architecture patterns (Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Data Mart)
  • Experience with data visualization tools (Looker, Power BI, Tableau or similar)

Knowledge of software engineering best practices: testing, clean code, documentation

Benefits & perks

  • Chance of earning equity at Nubank
  • Food/Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)
  • Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte)
  • NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
  • Life Insurance, Medical Plan and Dental Plan
  • NuLanguage – Language Course Program
  • Nucleo – Our learning platform
  • Extended Parental Leave, Daycare Allowance and Parental Consultancy
  • Work-from-home Allowance
  • Gym Partnerships
  • 30 days of paid vacation
  • Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable

Work Model

Hybrid 2–3 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration.

For more details, visit building.nubank.com/nu-hybrid-work-model/

Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence–enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process. Artificial intelligence is not used to make final hiring decisions; all decisions are made by human reviewers.

To maintain a consistent and fair process for every candidate, Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback. See how our policy works here

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