Manager, Machine Learning Engineering – Underwriting

Affirm

Machine Learning Engineering Manager leading a team to build Affirm's economic decisioning engine. Collaborating across teams to implement advanced ML solutions and mentor engineers.

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set the technical strategy for your team, and help your engineers tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
Act as a force-multiplier through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by partnering with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
Develop talent by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelors in a technical field with 8+ years of industry experience, including 3+ years managing engineers
Proficiency in machine learning with experience in areas including tree-based models, transformers, deep learning, and agentic ML.
Strong engineering skills and the ability to provide hands-on technical leadership while working with our code and architecture
You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.
This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount

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Hard Skills & Tools

machine learningtree-based modelstransformersdeep learningagentic MLengineering skillstechnical leadershipcode architecturetechnical strategyoperational processes

Soft Skills

collaborationfeedbackguidanceleadershipproblem-solvingadaptabilitycommunicationteamworkstrategic thinkingmentorship