Senior Engineering Manager - ML Simulations Platform (Remote)

Aimlroles; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Annual equity grants

401(k) with company match

Health, dental, vision

Paid time off

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Upstart's Machine Learning and Simulations Platform team builds and operates the infrastructure behind ML model training, features engineering, inference, and marketplace simulation. Our simulation platform answers one question before any change reaches a borrower: what would this new ML model, price, or fee have produced for real applicants?

It replays historical data through production pricing logic in isolated environments, and it is now the shared tool every machine learning team at Upstart

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS, engineering, math, or related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, incl. 3+ years of engineering management experience.
• Experience leading backend platforms or distributed systems in production.
• Experience delivering multi-team platform or infrastructure programs.
• Proficiency with Python, Kotlin, AWS, Kubernetes, Databricks, Spark.

Responsibilities

• Own the engineering roadmap for Upstart's marketplace simulation platform, and decide which teams and use cases it serves next.
• Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers working across distributed services, offline data pipelines, and large-scale compute.
• Raise simulation reliability and accuracy to a level teams trust for launch decisions, including automated checks that detect drift between simulated and production results.
• Reduce the cost of each simulation as usage grows, through smart architecture and compute choices.
• Extend simulation coverage across the lending funnel and into new loan products, partnering with the teams who own each stage of pricing and decisioning logic.
• Turn recurring questions from machine learning, analytics, and capital markets partners into self-serve simulation workflows.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

AWS

Kubernetes

Databricks

Spark

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Job description

Upstart's Machine Learning and Simulations Platform team builds and operates the infrastructure behind ML model training, features engineering, inference, and marketplace simulation. Our simulation platform answers one question before any change reaches a borrower: what would this new ML model, price, or fee have produced for real applicants?

It replays historical data through production pricing logic in isolated environments, and it is now the shared tool every machine learning team at Upstart