Remote Senior ML Data Enablement Lead

Upstart; United States; Remote; USD 195,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

401(k) match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Comprehensive health coverage

Wellness/health benefits

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

Upstart is seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager for ML Data Enablement to lead a platform team responsible for data lifecycle from source to inference. You will drive strategy, accelerate data onboarding, and partner with ML, Data Platform, and product teams to turn data into a durable competitive advantage.

You will build scalable infrastructure, establish data ownership, and guide governance across third-party and internal datasets, enabling fast, reliable model deployment and experimentation.

Qualifications

• Owned production data pipelines enabling both offline training and online inference.
• Experience building and scaling data systems in modern stacks (Databricks/Spark, Python, SQL, AWS) and distributed systems architecture.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex cross-functional initiatives spanning engineering, ML, and business stakeholders.
• Experience designing and enforcing data quality frameworks and observability for production systems, including reconciliation, drift detection, and incident/postmortem loops.

Responsibilities

• Lead the ML Data Enablement organization and define the strategy, operating model, and execution roadmap.
• Increase data evaluation velocity and reduce time-to-production for high-value data sources.
• Partner cross-functionally with ML, ML Platform, Procurement, Data Platform, and product engineering teams.
• Establish end-to-end ownership across the data lifecycle and align data contracts/SLAs.
• Accelerate third-party data onboarding through standardized intake and templated integrations.

Skills

Data pipelines

Data systems

Python

SQL

Databricks

AWS

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

Databricks/Spark

Python

SQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Upstart is seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager for ML Data Enablement to lead a platform team responsible for data lifecycle from source to inference. You will drive strategy, accelerate data onboarding, and partner with ML, Data Platform, and product teams to turn data into a durable competitive advantage.

You will build scalable infrastructure, establish data ownership, and guide governance across third-party and internal datasets, enabling fast, reliable model deployment and experimentation.