Manager, Machine Learning Engineering (Underwriting)

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. In this role, you will manage a team of ML engineers to build and optimize the economic decisioning engine, partnering with various stakeholders to design and scale advanced ML solutions.

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