Manager, Machine Learning Engineering (Underwriting)

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 Grade - P

Equity Grade - 7

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

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).

CAN base pay range per year: $178,000 - $228,000