Senior Engineering Manager (ML Platform)

TL;DR

Senior Engineering Manager (ML Platform): Leading the ML Platform engineering organization to build and operate critical infrastructure for underwriting, fraud, and personalization with an accent on distributed systems and modern AI. Focus on scaling model training and serving infrastructure, managing engineering managers, and driving technical strategy for large-scale transformer-based models and GPU compute.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $232,000 – $310,000 per year (depending on location)

Company

Affirm is a fintech company reinventing credit by providing consumers with flexible, transparent payment solutions without hidden fees.

What you will do

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for the ML Platform, including feature computation, model training, and serving at scale.
• Lead and grow a team of engineering managers while maintaining hands-on technical involvement.
• Anticipate future AI/ML needs and build infrastructure to support transformer-based models, GPU compute, and reinforcement learning.
• Partner with ML modeling, product, and infrastructure leadership to accelerate critical ML initiatives.
• Establish engineering excellence in reliability, observability, and developer experience.
• Recruit, develop, and retain world-class platform engineers.

Requirements

• Must be based in the United States
• 12+ years of industry experience in software or ML engineering.
• 4+ years of experience managing engineering managers.
• Deep expertise in building large-scale ML infrastructure such as feature stores, model serving systems, or training pipelines.
• Fluency with modern ML concepts including deep neural networks, transformer architectures, and large-scale GPU training.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to navigate organizational complexity.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Generous flexible spending wallets for technology, food, and lifestyle needs.
• Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Remote-first culture with occasional office collaboration.