Sr. Manager, Software Engineering - Machine Learning Simulations
Core
Lead the engineering team building and operating the infrastructure for Upstart's marketplace simulation platform, which replays historical data to predict the impact of new ML models, pricing, and fees before they reach borrowers.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager, Machine Learning Simulations
Builds
Production-grade simulation platform for ML model training, features engineering, inference, and marketplace simulation
Domain
Fintech / AI Lending / Machine Learning Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering management, backend platform leadership, distributed systems, Python, Kotlin, AWS, Kubernetes, Databricks, Spark
Preferred skills
Simulation/backtesting systems, MLOps infrastructure, lending/credit risk domain knowledge, compute cost optimization, building shared platforms
Technologies
Python, Kotlin, AWS, Kubernetes, Databricks, Spark
Responsibilities
Own the engineering roadmap for the simulation platform, lead and grow a team of engineers, raise simulation reliability and accuracy, reduce simulation costs, extend simulation coverage across the lending funnel, turn partner questions into self-serve workflows
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities