Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Summary

Join Affirm's Portfolio ML team and lead the technical strategy, impacting business projects. Collaborate with product, design, and analytics teams to ensure technical sustainability. Act as a force multiplier, defining and advocating technical solutions and operational processes. Take ownership of team operations and availability, implementing monitoring, triage, and alerting systems. Foster a culture of quality and ownership, setting code review standards. Develop team talent through feedback and guidance. This role requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical field with 8+ years of experience (or a PhD with 6+ years). Affirm offers competitive benefits including 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, flexible spending wallets, and competitive time off.

Requirements

• Bachelors in a technical field with 8+ years of industry experience
• Relevant PhD can count for up to 2 YOE
• Proficiency in machine learning with experience in areas such as Generalized Linear Models, Gradient Boosting, Deep Learning, and Probabilistic Calibration
• Strong engineering skills in Python and data manipulation skills like SQL
• You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan
• You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others
• 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
• Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed
• Act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes
• Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, polcities, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example

Preferred Qualifications

Domain knowledge in credit risk, portfolio management, learning to rank, and personalization is a plus

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