Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, (ML Underwriting)

Affirm

Remote regions

US

Salary range

$232,000–$310,000/year

Benefits

Job Description

Responsibilities:

  • Define and drive multi-year, multi-team technical strategy for machine learning.
  • Lead the design, implementation, and scaling of advanced ML systems, setting the architectural direction.
  • Partner deeply with ML Platform, product, engineering, and risk leadership to shape long-term modeling capabilities.

Leadership:

  • Provide broad technical leadership across the ML organization, mentoring senior engineers.
  • Drive clarity and alignment on ambiguous, high-stakes technical decisions.
  • Champion operational and system excellence at the area level.

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of experience researching, designing, deploying, and operating large-scale machine learning systems.
  • Experience leading end-to-end ML system design.
  • Strong understanding of representation learning and embedding-based modeling.

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.

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