# Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Risk

About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff - payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR - so owners can focus on their craft and their customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve. All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) - because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success. Offer amounts are determined by role, level, and location. Learn more about ourTotal Rewards philosophy. AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto. We expect all team members to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role and grow their fluency as the technology evolves. AI experience requirements vary by role and will be assessed during the interview process. About the Role: For this role, we are looking for a technical leader (an individual contributor) to drive machine learning and AI in the identity and risk domains. You will build a model-driven risk platform to provide a trusted environment for Gusto Ecosystem. You’ll work with an es

- **Id**: 3835947
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/gusto-staff-machine-learning-engineer-risk>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T19:56:39Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T08:58:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7829
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Health insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Payroll Services, HR & Payroll Software

## Company

- **Id**: 783
- **Name**: Gusto
- **Domain**: gusto.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/gusto>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 74
- **Open postings**: 20
- **Ghost share**: 0.15
- **Stale share**: 0.6
- **Repost share**: 0.15
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 48
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 227000
- **Max**: 284000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 284000

## Technologies

- **Anomaly Detection** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **XGBoost** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T21:05:35Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 56 · green card filings: 7; Filings 12m: 56

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 48
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 284000
- **Is top pay**: no

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