Manager, Machine Learning Engineering – Underwriting

Job Description:

• 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.
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

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