Manager of Machine Learning Engineering (Checkout)

Join Affirm as a Machine Learning Engineering Manager and lead a team of ML engineers in building models for credit lending decisions in Europe and Australia. You will shape the future of machine learning at Affirm, collaborating with various teams and mentoring engineers. The role offers a remote-first work environment, generous time off, health benefits, and opportunities for learning and development.

Manage a team of ML engineers to build models for credit lending decisions in Europe and Australia.

Responsibilities

• Shape the future of machine learning at Affirm by partnering with engineering, product, and risk leaders.
• Set the technical strategy for the team and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes.

Requirements

• Proficiency in machine learning with experience in areas including tree-based models, transformers, deep learning, and agentic ML
• 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
• Bachelor's in a technical field with 8+ years of industry experience, including 3+ years managing engineers
• Strong engineering skills and the ability to provide hands-on technical leadership while working with our code and architecture
• A background in financial services, specifically in credit / lending
• GBP 142,000 - 190,000