Senior ML Engineering Lead - Drive Production AI

Checkr, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 302,000 - 355,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning allowance

Equity compensation

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Fertility/adoption support

Flexible PTO

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Checkr, Inc. in San Francisco, CA, seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the ML Engineering team within the Data & ML organization. You will set technical direction and drive production ML systems powering Checkr’s products at scale.

You’ll hire and mentor engineers, align ML initiatives with business goals, and partner with Product, Security, and Operations to deliver reliable AI features for customers. This is a high-impact leadership role with a strong focus on shipping results.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building software and ML/AI systems with increasing scope.
• 3+ years managing ML engineers and senior staff.
• Strong foundation shipping ML systems in production.
• Depth across ML lifecycle: data labeling, experimentation, deployment, APIs, CI/CD, monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the ML Engineering team with clear ownership.
• Set strategy and multi-quarter ML agenda aligned to outcomes.
• Raise production engineering bar: APIs, tests, CI/CD, observability, on-call ownership.
• Build the ML operating model for evaluation, data provenance, versioning, latency, cost.
• Advance core product intelligence through robust classification and extraction.
• Launch AI and fraud products with cross-functional partners.
• Lead AI-native leadership and executive communication on risks and trade-offs.

Skills

People leadership

Executive communication

ML production systems

NLP/classification/ER

LLMs & tool orchestration

Python/AWS/SageMaker

AI governance

Roadmap planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Measurement & cost trade-offs

Tools

Python

AWS/SageMaker

Snowflake

Spark

Job description

Checkr, Inc. in San Francisco, CA, seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the ML Engineering team within the Data & ML organization. You will set technical direction and drive production ML systems powering Checkr’s products at scale.

You’ll hire and mentor engineers, align ML initiatives with business goals, and partner with Product, Security, and Operations to deliver reliable AI features for customers. This is a high-impact leadership role with a strong focus on shipping results.