Senior Manager, ML Simulation Platform Engineering - Remote

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

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Health insurance

Wellness resources

Paid time off

Job summary

Upstart is seeking a senior engineering leader to own the roadmap for the marketplace simulation platform, guiding backend services and data pipelines at scale. You will mentor engineers, improve reliability, and reduce per-simulation cost while expanding coverage across lending products and pricing decisions in a fast-growing AI-driven lending marketplace.

Remote-friendly with occasional in-person onsites across the US; base pay ranges from $195,300 to $270,400 USD plus bonuses and equity as

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years of engineering management
• Experience leading engineering teams that build and operate backend platforms or distributed systems in production
• Experience delivering platform or infrastructure programs that span multiple teams
• 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 is seeking a senior engineering leader to own the roadmap for the marketplace simulation platform, guiding backend services and data pipelines at scale. You will mentor engineers, improve reliability, and reduce per-simulation cost while expanding coverage across lending products and pricing decisions in a fast-growing AI-driven lending marketplace.

Remote-friendly with occasional in-person onsites across the US; base pay ranges from $195,300 to $270,400 USD plus bonuses and equity as