Engineering Manager, Machine Learning, Credit Risk

Stripe

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Remote
Location
Toronto, CanadaAtlantaChicagoNew York, NYSeattleSan Francisco, CA
Salary
$258,600–$387,800 / yr
Posted
22 days ago
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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $229k
This role $323k
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This role pays more than 95% of similar roles. Most pay $202,800–$254,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $323k versus about $229k for comparable roles.

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About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for internet businesses, providing payment processing, billing, fraud prevention, and banking-as-a-service APIs to businesses of all sizes globally. Industry: Payments Infrastructure & Financial Technology

Stripe currently has 145 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $203,600–$286,800 across 142 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Machine Learning, Credit Risk

As the Engineering Manager, Machine Learning - Credit Risk, you will lead the Credit Risk team in developing intelligent systems to identify high-risk accounts and minimize credit losses. You will be responsible for setting technical and product direction, translating machine learning advances into practical capabilities, and managing the delivery of reliable models, services, and decision systems. Your daily work involves collaborating with Product, Data Science, Credit Strategy, Operations, and other engineering teams to define priorities and execute a focused roadmap. You will also hire and develop machine learning engineers while strengthening technical practices. The role focuses on solving complex machine learning problems where the primary challenge is distinguishing emerging risk from healthy business activity to balance loss prevention with user experience in a high-stakes environment involving decisions under uncertainty at scale.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in New York?

Median $253800 from 31 postings across 14 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Set and execute the strategy for detecting and mitigating credit risk using machine learning.
  • Own outcomes related to credit losses, profitability, detection quality, and user experience.
  • Lead the design and delivery of reliable machine learning models, services, and decision systems.
  • Translate advanced machine learning techniques into practical capabilities that support business goals.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to define priorities and deliver multi-departmental programs.
  • Recruit, hire, and develop a team of machine learning engineers.
  • Strengthen the team's technical practices and contribute to broader engineering leadership initiatives.

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of experience managing engineers who build and operate production machine learning systems.
  • Experience applying machine learning to complex, real-world problems and leading the technical delivery of models and supporting systems.
  • Experience setting strategy and working across engineering, product, data science, operations, and business teams to deliver measurable outcomes.
  • Experience recruiting, managing, and developing engineers in a fast-moving environment with significant autonomy.
  • Experience with credit risk, fraud detection, financial risk, trust and safety, or other domains involving decisions under uncertainty (preferred).
  • Experience balancing risk reduction with customer or user experience (preferred).
  • Experience building machine learning systems that support high-stakes, time-sensitive decisions at scale (preferred).
  • Experience setting a multi-year technical direction while delivering progress through quarterly plans (preferred).

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