Senior Engineering Manager, Machine Learning Platform

Affirm

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Remote US Posted 31 days ago $260,000–$310,000 / year
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TL;DR

Join Affirm's Machine Learning Platform team as a Senior Engineering Manager, leading a high-impact organization that builds and operates the critical infrastructure for all ML capabilities at Affirm. You will manage engineering managers and stay deeply connected to engineers, driving the technical strategy and roadmap for real-time feature computation, model training, and serving systems. Your role involves anticipating future AI trends and building scalable solutions like transformer-based models and GPU compute, while ensuring engineering excellence through reliability, observability, and developer experience. Ideal candidates have over 12 years of industry experience in software and ML engineering, including hands-on expertise with large-scale ML infrastructure, data pipelines, and modern ML techniques such as deep neural networks and reinforcement learning.

Skills

Python Kubernetes Docker AWS CI/CD Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL Redis Scikit-learn TensorFlow PyTorch Spark MLOps

What you'll do

  • Own the technical strategy and roadmap for ML Platform, covering real-time and batch feature computation.
  • Lead a team of engineering managers and maintain close partnership with individual contributors on technical direction.
  • Anticipate future AI trends to build necessary infrastructure before urgent needs arise.
  • Partner with ML modeling, product, and infrastructure leadership to accelerate Affirm's critical initiatives.
  • Establish engineering excellence across the organization in reliability, observability, developer experience, and operational rigor.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of industry experience in software and machine learning engineering.
  • Significant hands-on experience managing engineering managers for at least 4 years.
  • Deep expertise in building and operating large-scale ML infrastructure.
  • Strong understanding of data pipelines, quality, and model behavior.
  • Fluency with modern ML techniques including deep neural networks and transformers.
  • Track record of building platforms that accelerate the productivity and impact of ML teams.

Market check

Salary context

This $260,000–$310,000 range sits above 90% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$178,400–$262,400

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$185,500–$251,775

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Affirm

Affirm is a buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) financial technology company that offers point-of-sale installment loans to consumers, allowing them to split purchases into fixed monthly payments with transparent terms. Industry: Financial Technology & Consumer Lending

Affirm currently has 57 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,000–$240,000 across 56 roles with salary data.

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