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Salary: USD 204,000 - 290,000 / annual
Affirm is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the ML Training & Serving platform team. You will directly manage a team of platform engineers while combining strong people leadership with deep technical judgment in ML infrastructure.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partner with senior ICs and engineering leadership to define and execute the roadmap for ML training and serving infrastructure, spanning model training, deployment workflows, GPU infrastructure, and low-latency model serving
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of platform engineers while staying closely engaged in technical decisions and execution
- Drive delivery and operational health for the team's infrastructure, balancing reliability, developer experience, performance, and cost
- Evaluate and adopt modern ML infrastructure capabilities as Affirm's needs evolve, including transformer-based workloads and GPU compute
- Collaborate with ML modeling, product, and infrastructure teams to ensure the platform supports Affirm's highest-priority ML initiatives
- Recruit, develop, and retain high-performing platform engineers
Required qualifications:
- 7+ years of industry experience in software and/or machine learning engineering, including 2+ years managing engineers
- Meaningful hands-on software engineering experience
- Strong experience building and operating production ML or distributed systems infrastructure, with hands-on experience in model training, model serving, deployment workflows, or GPU infrastructure
- Solid understanding of ML data needs, including training datasets, data quality, reproducibility, and evaluation data
- Familiarity with modern ML workloads such as deep learning, transformer architectures, and large-scale training or serving
- Strong systems thinking and ability to partner with senior ICs on architectural trade-offs
- Track record of delivering platforms or infrastructure that improve engineering or ML team productivity
- Experience recruiting, coaching, and developing engineers across career stages
- Effective cross-functional collaboration and ability to lead through ambiguity
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience
Affirm is a remote-first company offering competitive benefits including 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible spending wallets for technology and lifestyle needs, competitive time off, and an employee stock purchase plan.
