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Senior Engineering Manager, ML Platform

Sift · Remote - USA · Remote

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About Sift

Sift's fraud prevention platform stops payment fraud and account takeover in real time - with transparent workflows, global data and expert analysts. Backed by Insight.

About the role

Lead and grow the team: Own the roadmap, execution, and quality of the systems that train, evaluate, and serve Sift's ML models in production, leading a team of ML platform engineers and data scientists. Stay technical: Review designs, unblock engineers on hard problems, and make credible calls on architecture and trade-offs.

More about this role

The Machine Learning team — internally known as "Potato Radius" — builds the training pipelines, feature infrastructure, and evaluation systems behind every score Sift returns, across more than 700 customers and a trillion-plus events a year. We are Sift's Data Science and ML Engineering team responsible to ship models fast, prove they work, and trust them in production.

We're hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead this team. You're a manager who's inspiring and technical, and who knows how to bring focus to what matters now without losing sight of the long term. You value collaboration and transparency, operate with a get-stuff-done mindset, and bring the technical depth and bias for shipping to spot the manual, brittle, or duplicated work that's quietly slowing the team down. You build a culture of mentorship, give regular and constructive feedback, set clear goals, and grow your team by hiring effectively.

Launch a unified model evaluation framework that gives Data Science fast, trustworthy, apples-to-apples comparisons before a model ever reaches production or shadow traffic.

Evolve core feature infrastructure — including a new global feature store — to improve accuracy...

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