Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead and expand a machine learning engineering team through career development, conflict resolution, mentoring, providing feedback, setting goals, and recruitment.

• Identify and rectify gaps in team skills and processes.

• Collaborate with tech leads to rigorously test ideas, prioritize hypotheses, allocate computational resources and personnel, and manage experimentation portfolios.

• Balance immediate model enhancement commitments with long-term research opportunities and adjust resources as new evidence emerges.

• Establish stringent evaluation standards, including continuous assessments and validations that ensure offline results forecast online behavior accurately.

• Drive independent experimental workstreams towards comprehensive evaluation, candidate releases, and production deployment.

• Work closely with Risk partners on specified model-performance commitments while they manage thresholds, rules, and merchant decision applications.

• Operate independently to set the team's direction based on performance metrics and experimental outcomes.

• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams on feature systems, training pipelines, and experimentation tools.

• Present team outcomes to engineering leadership, Risk leaders, and the broader organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Approximately 5+ years of experience in machine learning, data science, or software engineering related to ML.

• At least 3 years of experience in people management, including career development, conflict resolution, and fostering healthy, high-performing teams.

• Genuine expertise in at least one of engineering or applied statistics, with working proficiency in the other.

• Technical capability to engage with production models, code, evaluation pipelines, and statistical outcomes.

• Proven ability to lead initiatives amid uncertainty, establish direction, adapt based on evidence, and communicate decisions effectively.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including a strong ability to write documents.

• Capacity to identify priorities and autonomously assess outcome impacts in a rapidly changing environment.

• Commitment to correctness, reproducibility, reliability, and producing high-quality work.

🏝️ Benefits

• Discretionary Time Off Policy (Unlimited!)

• 401K Match

• Stock Options

• Annual Performance Bonus or Commissions

• Paid Parental Leave (12 weeks)

• On-Demand Therapy for all employees & their dependents

• Dedicated learning budget through Learnerbly

• Health Insurance

• Dental Insurance

• Vision Insurance

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance

• Life Insurance

• Company Social Events

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