# Senior Engineering Manager, Machine Learning at Checkr

- Company: Checkr
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Y Combinator and GV.
- Company website: http://www.checkr.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-23
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/checkr/jobs/8178764
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/checkr-senior-engineering-manager-machine-learning/

## About the role

This is an engineering leadership role, not a research-management role: you will lead ML engineers across seniority levels, stay close enough to the work to set technical direction, and hold the team accountable for production outcomes. You will decide where ML should continue to create a strategic advantage for Checkr.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years building software and machine learning or AI systems, with a clear progression in scope and impact
- 3+ years managing ML or software engineers, including hiring and developing senior and staff-level technical leaders
- A strong software-engineering foundation and a record of shipping ML systems that run in production
- Technical depth across the ML lifecycle: data and labeling, experimentation, model selection, deployment, APIs, CI/CD, observability, evaluation, retraining, and incident response
- Sound judgment across classical ML, deep learning, LLMs, rules, and conventional software
- Experience setting direction for NLP, classification, extraction, entity resolution, risk, fraud, recommendation, or similarly complex applied-ML domains

Tags: Engineering