Manager, Machine Learning Engineering (Underwriting)
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About the Role
Affirm seeks a Machine Learning Engineering Manager to lead a team building the economic decisioning engine for underwriting. The role involves setting technical strategy, collaborating with product and risk leaders, and mentoring engineers.
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Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
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About Affirm
- Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.
- Join Affirm as a Machine Learning Engineering Manager and become a pivotal part of our innovative underwriting machine learning group.
- Specifically, you will manage a team of ML engineers that builds our economic decisioning engine, using novel ML techniques and rich representations of data to underwrite and optimize applications based on expected returns, lifetime value, and predicted conversion.
- In this role, you will help shape the future of machine learning at Affirm.
What you’ll do
- 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.
What We Look For
- 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.
Pay and Benefits
- Pay Grade P
- Equity Grade 7
- CAN base pay range per year: CAD 181,000 CAD 241,000
- Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents).
- In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).
Workplace Policy
- Affirm is proud to be a remote first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment.
- Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office.
- A limited number of roles remain office based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.
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
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