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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - ML Underwriting

AffirmRemote Canada
Remote Full-time $206K/yr - $256K/yr

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Key ResponsibilitiesCraft and spearhead a multi-year, multi-team technical strategy for machine learning at Affirm, ensuring alignment with overarching company priorities and influencing the plans of partner teams and platforms. Lead the design, implementation, and scaling of advanced machine learning systems, setting architectural direction for intricate, cross-functional projects while maintaining system reliability and extensibility. Collaborate extensively with ML Platform, product, engineering, and risk leadership to enhance long-term modeling capabilities, identify new ML opportunities, and guide the evolution of infrastructure for next-generation ML approaches. Provide broad technical leadership across the ML organization, mentoring senior engineers, enhancing design and code quality, and disseminating ML knowledge through documentation, presentations, and cross-organizational guidance. Facilitate clarity and alignment on complex, high-impact technical decisions, resolving cross-team conflicts, balancing competing priorities, and exercising sound judgment that benefits the broader engineering organization. Champion operational excellence in the area, maintaining the long-term health, availability, and evolution of essential ML systems while ensuring rigorous testing, monitoring, and reliability practices across teams.

About the job

At Affirm, we are transforming the credit landscape to offer a more honest and user-friendly experience, empowering consumers with the freedom to buy now and pay later, free from hidden fees and compounding interest.

As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you'll be a critical member of our pioneering machine learning team. Committed to Affirm’s mission of enhancing financial services with transparency and inclusivity, you will leverage cutting-edge machine learning technologies to ensure our financial products are responsible and accessible.

In this influential role, you will help define the future of machine learning at Affirm. Collaborating with teams across ML Platform, engineering, product, and risk, you will design, implement, and scale sophisticated modeling strategies that inform vital decisions throughout the organization. You'll elevate our modeling capabilities, impact architectural strategies, and ensure our systems are equipped to handle increasingly complex workloads. As a mentor to senior engineers, you will provide clarity on intricate and ambiguous challenges while contributing to our comprehensive long-term machine learning strategy. If you are passionate about modern machine learning and eager to drive significant innovation in a rapidly evolving environment, Affirm is the perfect place for you.

About Affirm

Affirm is on a mission to reshape the credit experience, making it more transparent and accessible for consumers. We provide innovative solutions that allow users to buy now and pay later without the burden of hidden fees or compounding interest. Our commitment to inclusivity and responsible financial products sets us apart in the financial services industry.

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