Senior Director, Software Engineering (Machine Learning)

About the Role

Lead centralized Machine Learning capability at Affirm, driving the vision for AI to reinvent credit and deliver honest financial products. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of ML and AI in a mission-driven organization.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision for Machine Learning and AI at Affirm.
• Hire world-class Machine Learning modelers, Platform, and Software engineers to execute on that vision.
• Take ownership of our core model development lifecycle and business outcomes across established verticals – underwriting, fraud, servicing, and personalization.
• Work closely with product and business leadership to champion AI adoption in both existing and new products.
• Balance ML investments across traditional ML and transformer-based models.
• Evolve the ML platform to support increasing ML needs across Affirm, with a special emphasis on training, tuning, and serving AI models.
• Run a robust, yet shortened ML development lifecycle, establishing a culture for experimenting and failing fast.
• Work with a wide variety of cross-functional partners outside of engineering.

Requirements

• Proven leadership experience in Machine Learning and AI.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical vision and strategy for ML initiatives.
• Experience in hiring, mentoring, and leading high-performing engineering teams.
• Deep expertise in the ML model development lifecycle and its application to business outcomes.
• Strong understanding of ML platforms, including training, tuning, and serving AI models.
• Ability to drive AI adoption and collaborate effectively with product and business leaders.
• Experience with both traditional ML and transformer-based models.