Machine Learning Engineer II

🕒 May 25

🏄 California, Connecticut, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $142k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🤖 Machine Learning Engineer

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Affirm

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Fintech • B2C • eCommerce

Affirm is a financial technology company that offers a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service, allowing consumers to make purchases and pay for them over time with flexible payment plans. Affirm eliminates hidden fees and compound interest, providing clear terms and conditions for its users. The company also offers the Affirm Card, a debit card that allows users to request to pay over time for larger purchases or pay in full for smaller ones. Affirm partners with various retailers across multiple categories, including electronics, apparel, and travel, providing customers with the convenience of paying over time at checkout both online and in physical stores. Affirm's services are integrated with Apple Pay, enabling customers to make payments seamlessly from their iPhone or iPad.

📋 Description

• You will develop AI systems that automate dispute and chargeback handling using structured evidence and business logic, creating a better experience for our customers. • You will build models that automate refunds, getting money back to our customers faster. • You will build and maintain evidence extraction pipelines that process unstructured data using LLM-powered workflows to produce structured, actionable outputs. • You will prototype new modeling ideas, run offline experiments, and drive the best-performing approaches into production with appropriate risk controls. • You will collaborate across Engineering, Servicing Operations, Product, and ML Platform to define requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and communicate results clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

🎯 Requirements

• You have a total of 2+ years of experience as a machine learning engineer • Strong Python skills and experience writing production-quality code • Experience building and evaluating models for tabular classification problems (preferably gradient-boosted decision trees like LightGBM/XGBoost/CatBoost). • Experience building applications with LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic), including structured extraction, prompt engineering, and orchestration frameworks like LangChain or LangGraph. • Familiarity with document and unstructured data processing (PDF/image extraction, text parsing, or similar). • Experience with ML lifecycle tooling for training orchestration, experimentation, and model monitoring (e.g., Kubeflow, Airflow, MLflow, or equivalent internal platforms). • Proficient in using AI-powered developer tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) to accelerate iteration, debugging, and code quality as part of day-to-day development workflows. • You have mastered taking a simple problem or business scenario into a solution that interacts with multiple software components, and executing on it by writing clear, easily understood, well tested and extensible code. • You are comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews. • Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders. • You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team. • This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field

🏖️ Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents • Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses • Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge • ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount