Affirm

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, (ML Fraud)

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3 months ago
Remote, Canada
Senior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$206k - $256k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive multi-year technical strategy for machine learning across Affirm.
  • Lead the design, implementation, and scaling of advanced ML systems.
  • Partner with ML Platform, product, engineering, and risk leadership to shape long-term modeling capabilities.
  • Provide broad technical leadership and mentor senior engineers.
  • Drive clarity on ambiguous technical decisions and resolve cross-team tensions.
  • Champion operational excellence and ensure the reliability of critical ML systems.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in large-scale, real-time machine learning systems.
  • Experience leading end-to-end ML system design and deployment.
  • Proficient in Python and ML frameworks like PyTorch and XGBoost.
  • Strong understanding of representation learning and neural network-based modeling.
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale distributed ML infrastructure.
  • Exceptional judgment, collaboration, and communication skills.
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

  • 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and your dependents.
  • Generous stipends for technology, food, and lifestyle needs.
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
  • Employee stock purchase plan at a discount.

Tech Stack

Apache SparkMLflowPythonPyTorchXGBoost

Categories

AI & MLData Science