Manager, Machine Learning Engineering (Fraud)
Affirm · Remote (United States) · Checkout
About this role
Affirm is hiring a manager-level Engineering Manager in the software engineering function as a remote position. The posting calls out experience with Deep Learning, ETL, Machine Learning, A/B Testing. Compensation is listed at $225,000–$275,000 per year.
- Role
- Engineering Manager
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- manager
- Track
- hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Remote (United States)
- Work mode
- Remote
- Department
- Checkout
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Job description
from Affirm careersAffirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.
The Fraud Machine Learning team builds models that power critical decisions during the loan application process, protecting Affirm and its customers from fraud while maintaining a seamless user experience. As a manager, you will lead a team of ML engineers developing and improving models that detect and prevent abuse in a rapidly evolving, adversarial environment.
In this role, you will define the technical and modeling strategy for fraud detection, guiding the team across the full machine learning lifecycle from feature development and experimentation to production deployment and monitoring. You will partner closely with Product, Fraud Analytics, Risk, and Platform teams to ensure high-quality models are effectively integrated into decisioning systems. You will also help drive the evolution of modeling approaches at Affirm, including the adoption of representation learning and transformer-based techniques to better capture complex behavioral patterns.
What you’ll do
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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
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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
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