Senior Machine Learning Engineer
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Senior Director, Software Engineering – Machine Learning
Affirm
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $305,000 - $375,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Set the vision for Machine Learning and AI at Affirm. Hire world class Machine Learning modelers, Platform and Software engineers to execute on that vision.
- Take ownership of our core model development lifecycle and business outcomes across our established verticals – underwriting, fraud, servicing, personalization.
- Work closely with product and business leadership to champion AI adoption in both existing and new products.
- Balance ML investments across traditional ML and transformer based models
- Evolve ML platform to support our increasing ML needs across Affirm with a special emphasis on training, tuning and serving AI models.
- Run a robust, yet shortened ML development lifecycle establishing a culture for experimenting and failing fast.
- Work with a wide variety of cross functional partners outside of engineering ranging from product, risk, servicing, legal and compliance.
Requirements
- 15+ years of relevant experience in Machine Learning, AI, or related technical domains
- Experience leading centralized ML teams comprising of both ML modelers and ML platform engineers
- Successful track record in landing key models responsible for the company’s success that directly drive PnL
- Comfortable working in matrix organizations and influencing across a wide variety of leaders
- Experience hiring and growing, and retaining talent
- Keeps up with evolving ML landscape — understands when to buy vs build, and what tools/ techniques can drive the most business value
Benefits
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Machine LearningAIML model developmenttransformer modelsmodel trainingmodel tuningmodel servingdata analysisalgorithm developmentstatistical modeling
Soft skills
leadershipinfluencingcollaborationcommunicationteam buildingstrategic visionproblem solvingadaptabilitydecision makingculture building
