# Lead AI Engineer

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Lead AI EngineerMastercard is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to join a small, focused AI technology team led by one of Mastercard's Distinguished Engineers. The team will initially focus on delivering agentic technologies such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP) at scale and the use of open weight AI models. The team works in partnership with key technology stakeholders across the organization.This is a hands-on engineering role. You will design and build the platform capabilities that let Mastercard adopt MCP and open weight models safely and at scale, working alongside more senior engineers who set the broader technical direction. We are looking for someone with stron

- **Id**: 4024131
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mastercard-lead-ai-engineer-6>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Dublin, Ireland
- **Countries**: IE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T16:17:37Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T16:17:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6372
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cards & Card Issuing, Payment Processing & Gateways

## Company

- **Id**: 252
- **Name**: Mastercard
- **Domain**: mastercard.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mastercard>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 184
- **Ghost share**: 0.033
- **Stale share**: 0.467
- **Repost share**: 0.076
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T16:17:37Z

## Visa

- Country: IE; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Irish employment permits in 12 months: 110; Filings 12m: 110

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T18:48:11Z

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