ML Engineer Manager, AI Conversation Platform

FDE Times; Toronto; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe in Toronto is seeking an Engineering Manager for the AI Conversation Platform to lead a growing ML engineering team, shipping end-to-end ML features and integrations. You will guide the technical direction and collaborate across product and platform teams to deliver high-impact systems.

The role requires hands-on experience with production ML, strong leadership, and a passion for mentoring engineers as Stripe builds scalable, AI-powered capabilities for merchants.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience managing ML teams.
• Experience as ML Engineer or Applied Scientist.
• Lead by example in high-growth, ambiguous environments.
• Experience building & shipping ML systems.
• Work with production systems.
• Collaborative cross-functional environment.

Responsibilities

• Driving an ambitious vision for AI/ML that benefits our users
• Setting the technical & process direction for the team based on business goals
• Brainstorm and coordinate product integrations with partner teams
• Proposing new ideas and building prototypes
• Be an integral part of a larger ML community internally & externally
• Hire & develop a world-class team to deliver high-quality ML systems.
• Coach engineers to help them grow in their careers and maintain a high bar

Skills

ML leadership

Team management

Production ML systems

LLM / RAG experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Hiring/mentoring

Job description

Engineering Manager, AI Conversation Platform

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies-from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups-use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The newly formed Conversation Platform team aims to build a conversation platform for all merchants who use Stripe. We are doing so by (a) automating the easy tasks, and (b) assisting our users in the difficult tasks. Some examples include customizing the Stripe landing page to suggest bespoke integrations, allowing users to command the Stripe API in natural language, and resolving user issues automatically. We are developing RAG based systems on the latest LLMs as well as fine-tuning our own models. We're an end-to-end team going from ideas to models to shipping in production.

What you'll do

Responsibilities

• Driving an ambitious vision for AI/ML that benefits our users
• Setting the technical & process direction for the team based on business goals
• Brainstorm and coordinate product integrations with partner teams
• Proposing new ideas and building prototypes
• Be an integral part of a larger ML community internally & externally
• Hire & develop a world-class team to deliver high-quality ML systems.
• Coach engineers to help them grow in their careers and maintain a high bar

Who you are

We are looking for ML Engineering Managers who are passionate about using ML to improve products and delight customers. You have experience leading teams that develop streaming feature pipelines, build ML models, and deploy them to production, even if it involves making substantial changes to backend code. You are comfortable with ambiguity, love to take initiative, and have a bias towards action.

Minimum requirements

• Have at least 4 years of experience managing ML teams
• Experience working as a Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Scientist or equivalent Individual Contributor.
• Lead by example in high-growth, high-impact, ambiguous environments
• Have experience building & shipping ML systems.
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems.
• Thrive in a collaborative cross-functional environment

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in shipping LLM & RAG systems