Manager, Machine Learning Engineering

2 hours, 25 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Affirm

Affirm

Affirm offers a transparent buy now, pay later service founded in 2012 by Max Levchin. No late fees or surprises, just a responsible way to pay over time for your favorite brands.

Diversified Financial Services
1K-5K
Founded 2012

Description

  • Set the technical and modeling strategy for fraud detection to align with fraud loss reduction, approval rates, and customer experience goals.
  • Lead a team of machine learning engineers to design, build, and iterate on fraud models across the full ML lifecycle.
  • Drive model experimentation, production deployment, and ongoing monitoring for fraud detection systems.
  • Advance the team’s modeling approaches by adopting representation learning, transformer-based methods, and other advanced techniques.
  • Partner with Product, Fraud Analytics, Risk, and Engineering to define solutions and evaluate trade-offs.
  • Ensure fraud models are effectively integrated into decisioning systems.
  • Develop team talent through coaching, feedback, and fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8+ years of industry experience.
  • 3+ years of experience managing engineers.
  • Experience with modern ML approaches such as representation learning, deep learning, or transformer-based models.
  • Experience with traditional ML methods such as gradient-boosted trees.
  • Proven ability to lead end-to-end ML solutions in production environments.
  • Experience with experimentation, evaluation, and model iteration in production.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals and experience with scalable systems and data pipelines.
  • Track record of effective cross-functional collaboration with product, analytics, and engineering partners.
  • Ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-evolving environments and drive clarity, prioritization, and execution.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work environment with flexibility to work almost anywhere within the country of employment.
  • 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and your dependents.
  • Dental and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending.
  • Flexible Spending Wallets for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family-forming expenses.
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
  • Employee stock purchase plan with a discount on Affirm shares.
  • Potential equity rewards as part of total compensation.
  • Base pay range of $178,000 to $228,000 per year in Canada.

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