Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Manager

Credit Acceptance

Senior Manager of Machine Learning Engineering at Credit Acceptance, overseeing AI solution development and strategic execution across business areas. Drive innovation while ensuring system reliability and scalability.

Posted 6/29/2026full-timeSouthfield • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $184,354 - $270,386 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the vision and the strategic execution with a strong focus on continuous and long-term value creation across all participants of our flywheel
Collaborate with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps and translate them into actionable quarterly plans.
Drive execution and delivery of ML/AI solutions by managing priorities, deadlines, and deliverables, leveraging your technical expertise.
Design and deliver scalable, secure systems using state-of-the-art AI/ML technologies and industry best practices, and nurture the culture of creating high-quality, well-tested systems to address critical product and business needs.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues to improve system reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

Requirements

What you’ll need

PhD in Computer Science, Stats, Economics, or a relevant technical field with at least 8+ years of relevant experience or MS with at least 10+ years of experience in machine learning and software engineering
8+ years of hands-on experience designing, building and deploying AI (ML, DL, Gen-AI) models, including Reinforcement Learning algorithms, Recommendation systems, Transformers, fine-tuned LLMs, Regressions, etc.
Hands-on expertise in scaling and maintaining production-grade ML services, with a strong focus on ML/LLM Operations (versioning, automation, observability, automated training and monitoring, etc.)
Passion for identifying new business opportunities and experience of using a test and learn approach to bring scalable and efficient solutions integrating AI algorithms, ML/LLM Ops, and s/w engineering
Strong problem-solving skills with bias for action.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Excellent benefits package that includes 401(K) match
adoption assistance
parental leave
tuition reimbursement
comprehensive medical/ dental/vision and many nonstandard benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI Model DeploymentDeep LearningGenerative AIRecommendation SystemsTransformersFine-Tuned LLMsRegression AnalysisSystem DesignScalable SystemsSoftware Engineering

Soft Skills

CollaborationStrategic VisionBias For Action