Sr. Manager, Software Engineering - Machine Learning Simulations
About The Position
Upstart’s Machine Learning and Simulations Platform team builds and operates infrastructure for machine learning model training, feature engineering, inference, and marketplace simulation. Its simulation platform replays historical data through production pricing logic in isolated environments to estimate how models, prices, or fees would have affected real applicants. Machine learning teams currently run roughly a thousand simulations each month, and the platform is a shared tool for assessing the impact of launches. The Senior Manager will lead the team that owns the platform and its engineering roadmap. The role will focus on making the platform production-grade, improving reliability and fidelity to production, reducing simulation costs as usage grows, and extending access and coverage to additional teams, lending stages, and loan products. The manager will work across machine learning, pricing, product, analytics, capital markets, and infrastructure teams, including teams that own the logic the platform must reproduce. The role also involves leading and developing engineers working across distributed services, offline data pipelines, and large-scale compute.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years of engineering management experience.
- 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 some or many of Python, Kotlin, AWS, Kubernetes, Databricks, and Spark.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of simulation, backtesting, experimentation, or offline model evaluation systems.
- Experience supporting machine learning teams or operating MLOps infrastructure, including model inference, workflow orchestration, and offline feature pipelines.
- Knowledge of lending, pricing, credit risk, or marketplace economics.
- Ability to make compute cost and efficiency engineering goals alongside reliability.
- Ability to build shared platforms where partner teams own part of the logic and maintain stable interfaces as systems evolve.
- Experience developing senior engineers and emerging engineering leaders.
Responsibilities
- Own the engineering roadmap for Upstart’s marketplace simulation platform and determine 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.
- Improve simulation reliability and accuracy so teams can trust results for launch decisions, including building automated checks to detect drift between simulated and production results.
- Reduce the cost of each simulation as usage grows through effective architecture and compute choices.
- Extend simulation coverage across the lending funnel and into new loan products in partnership with teams responsible for pricing and decisioning logic.
- Turn recurring questions from machine learning, analytics, and capital markets partners into self-service simulation workflows.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, bonus opportunities, and annual equity grants that vest quarterly.
- 401(k) or Group Retirement Savings Plan with a company match of $2 for every $1 contributed, up to $15,000 annually.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan with discounted stock purchase options for eligible U.S. employees.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus wellness resources.
- Health Savings Account contributions for eligible U.S. plans.
- Life insurance and disability coverage.
- Paid time off, sick leave, and company holidays.
- Paid family and parental leave.
- Family-centered fertility, parenthood, and caregiving benefits.
- Employee Assistance Program with mental health support and life-centered resources.
- Financial wellness resources, including financial planning tools and a financial concierge service for U.S. employees.
- Annual wellness allowance supporting physical and emotional well-being and personal development.
- Annual productivity allowance for relevant work tools and resources.
- Team events, all-company updates, and employee resource groups.
- Catered lunches and stocked micro-kitchens at company offices.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
