Senior Manager, Software Engineering (ML Platform)
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Almost anywhere within the country of employmentFull-TimeManager
Salary232000 - 310000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Required Skills
- Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 12+ years of industry experience in software and/or machine learning engineering
- 4+ years managing engineering managers
- Deep expertise in building and operating large-scale ML infrastructure
- Experience with feature stores, model serving systems, training pipelines
- Strong understanding of data — data pipelines, data quality
- Fluency with modern ML: deep neural networks, transformer architectures, reinforcement learning, large-scale GPU training and serving
- Strong systems thinking
- Track record of building platforms that meaningfully accelerate the productivity and impact of ML teams
- Experience navigating ambiguity and leading through organizational complexity
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience
Responsibilities
- Own the technical strategy and roadmap for ML Platform, covering real-time and batch feature computation, model training infrastructure, and model serving at scale
- Lead and grow a team of engineering managers, while staying hands-on with the technical direction and maintaining close partnership with ICs
- Continuously evolve the platform to stay ahead of the frontier — anticipating where AI and ML are heading and building the infrastructure that makes those capabilities possible at Affirm before they become urgent needs
- Partner with ML modeling, product, and infrastructure leadership to ensure the platform accelerates Affirm's most critical ML initiatives
- Establish engineering excellence across the organization: reliability, observability, developer experience, and operational rigor
- Recruit, develop, and retain world-class platform engineers
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