Senior Director, Software Engineering (Machine Learning)

15+ years of relevant experience in Machine Learning, AI, or related technical domains. Experience leading centralized ML teams comprising of both ML modelers and ML platform engineers. Successful track record in landing key models responsible for company success that directly drive PnL. Comfortable working in matrix organizations and influencing across a wide variety of leaders. Experience hiring and growing, and retaining talent. Keeps up with evolving ML landscape — understands when to buy vs build, and what tools/ techniques can drive the most business value.

Set the vision for Machine Learning and AI at Affirm. Take ownership of our core model development lifecycle and business outcomes. Work closely with product and business leadership to champion AI adoption. Balance ML investments across traditional ML and transformer based models. Evolve ML platform to support increasing ML needs, emphasizing training, tuning, and serving AI models. Run a robust, yet shortened ML development lifecycle. Work with a wide variety of cross-functional partners.