Manager, Machine Learning Engineering (Fraud)

What you’ll do

• Set the technical and modeling strategy for fraud detection, aligning team efforts with key business outcomes such as fraud loss reduction, approval rates, and customer experience
• Lead a team of machine learning engineers to design, build, and iterate on high-impact fraud models across the full ML lifecycle, from experimentation to production
• Drive the evolution of modeling approaches, including the adoption of representation learning, transformer-based methods, and other advanced techniques for modeling complex behavioral data
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Fraud Analytics, Risk, and Engineering to define solutions, evaluate trade-offs, and ensure models are effectively integrated into decisioning systems
• Develop talent by coaching engineers, providing feedback, and fostering a high-performing team culture grounded in technical excellence and ownership

What we look for

• Bachelor’s in a technical field with 8+ years of industry experience, including 3+ years managing engineers
• Experience with modern ML approaches, including representation learning, deep learning, or transformer-based models, as well as traditional methods such as gradient-boosted trees
• Proven ability to lead teams delivering end-to-end ML solutions in production environments, including experimentation, evaluation, and model iteration in production
• Strong engineering fundamentals and experience working with scalable systems and data pipelines
• Track record of effective cross-functional collaboration with product, analytics, and engineering partners
• Ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-evolving environments and drive clarity, prioritization, and execution
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Pay

• USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $230,000 - $290,000
• USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $204,000 - $264,000

Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount