Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, (ML Underwriting)

Affirm 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.

As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in our innovative ML team, partnering with ML Platform, engineering, product and risk leaders to design, implement and scale advanced modeling approaches that drive critical decisions across the company. You will mentor senior engineers, bring clarity to complex, ambiguous problems and contribute to a cohesive long‑term ML strategy.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive a multi‑year, multi‑team technical strategy for machine learning across the company, ensuring alignment with company‑wide priorities and influencing partner roadmaps.
• Lead the design, implementation and scaling of advanced ML systems, setting architectural direction for complex, cross‑functional initiatives while keeping systems relia...