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Engineering Manager, Machine Learning Platform

Engineering ManagerEngineering ManagerFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2012H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

3 days ago

Salary

$204K - $290K / year

Seniority

Lead

Bachelor Degree7 yrs expEnglishDistributed Systems

Job Description

Engineering Manager, Machine Learning Platform

Affirm

• Partner with senior ICs and engineering leadership to define and execute the roadmap for ML training & serving, spanning model training, deployment workflows, GPU infrastructure, and low-latency model serving. • Lead, coach, and grow a team of platform engineers while staying closely engaged in technical decisions and execution. • Drive delivery and operational health for the team’s infrastructure, balancing reliability, developer experience, performance, and cost. • Evaluate and adopt modern ML infrastructure capabilities as Affirm’s needs evolve, including transformer-based workloads and GPU compute. • Collaborate with ML modeling, product, and infrastructure teams to ensure the platform supports Affirm’s highest-priority ML initiatives. • Recruit, develop, and retain high-performing platform engineers.

Job Requirements

  • 7+ years of industry experience in software and/or machine learning engineering, including 2+ years managing engineers and meaningful hands-on software engineering experience.
  • Strong experience building and operating production ML or distributed systems infrastructure, with hands-on experience in at least one of model training, model serving, deployment workflows, or GPU infrastructure.
  • Solid understanding of ML data needs, including training datasets, data quality, reproducibility, and evaluation data.
  • Familiarity with modern ML workloads, such as deep learning, transformer architectures, and large-scale training or serving.
  • Strong systems thinking and the ability to partner with senior ICs on architectural trade-offs.
  • Track record of delivering platforms or infrastructure that improve the productivity and impact of engineering or ML teams.
  • Experience recruiting, coaching, and developing engineers across career stages.
  • Effective cross-functional collaboration and the ability to lead through ambiguity.
  • Experience with applied ML modeling is a plus.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.

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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