Senior Machine Learning Engineer
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About Upstart
Upstart is the leading AI lending marketplace partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit. By leveraging Upstarts AI marketplace Upstartpowered banks and credit unions can have higher approval rates and lower loss rates across races ages and genders while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digitalfirst lending experience their customers demand. More than 80 of borrowers are approved instantly with zero documentation to upload.
Upstart is a digitalfirst company which means that most Upstarters live and work anywhere in the United States. However we also have offices in San Mateo California; Columbus Ohio; and Austin Texas.
Most Upstarters join us because they connect with our mission of enabling access to effortless credit based on true risk. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Upstart wed love to hear from you!
The Team:
Upstarts ML Integrity Explainability team is focused on research and development related to AI Explainability. This includes researching and developing the methodology behind how we explain modelbased credit decisions. This function is essential for Upstart to ensure that our models are compliant robust and are able to engender trust with a variety of external stakeholders including lending partners investors and consumers.
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on our team at Upstart you will be an integral part of the Explainability team ensuring fair lending compliance of modelbased decisions on the platform. You will influence and implement the teams long term vision for systems generating model explanations at Upstart including but not limited to: increasing productivity through better software and infrastructure automating model training building efficient interfaces for internal and external parties to interact with and understand our models developing a robust model monitoring protocol and ensuring coding best practices.
How youll make an impact:
- Build repeatable workflows and automation that enables faster and more flexible model updates and research flows
- Define and enforce best engineering practices across the team helping scientists uplevel their technical skills
- Discover and develop a short and longterm roadmap of engineering improvements on the explainability team
- Interface crossfunctionally with other engineering teams (data engineering machine learning platform pricing and growth software engineering) to provide feedback and requirements so that we can build highquality systems endtoend
- Build maintain and improve methodologies and tooling for interacting with and understanding model decisions across Upstarts platform.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors with 4years of software engineering experience in ML or MLadjacent teams
- Experienced and proficient in Python programming
- Experience working with most of the following technologies: machine learning libraries such as numpy pandas and sklearn; orchestration tools; public cloud infrastructure; containers; backend programming languages
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters Degree in Computer Science or quantitative field
- Experience working as a software engineer in collaboration with machine learning teams
- Working knowledge of common ML methods such as regression boosting and general predictive modeling.
- Experience working in the fintech industry
- Experience working with AI/ML Explainability techniques
Position location: Remote
Travel requirements As a digital first company the majority of your work can be accomplished remotely. The majority of our employees can live and work anywhere in the U.S but are encouraged to to still spend high quality time inperson collaborating via regular onsites. The inperson sessions cadence varies depending on the team and role; most teams meet once or twice per quarter for 24 consecutive days at a time.
What youll love:
- Competitive Compensation (base bonus & equity)
- Comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage with Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart
- 401(k) with 100 company match up to $4500 and immediate vesting and aftertax savings
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Life and disability insurance
- Generous holiday vacation sick and safety leave
- Supportive parental family care and military leave programs
- Annual wellness technology & ergonomic reimbursement programs
- Social activities including team events and onsites allcompany updates employee resource groups (ERGs) and other interest groups such as book clubs fitness investing and volunteering
- Catered lunches snacks & drinks when working in offices
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At Upstart your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. The anticipated base salary for this position is expected to be within the below range. Your actual base pay will depend on your geographic locationwith our digital first philosophy Upstart uses compensation regions that vary depending on location. Individual pay is also determined by jobrelated skills experience and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
In addition Upstart provides employees with target bonuses equity compensation and generous benefits packages (including medical dental vision and 401k).
Upstart is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to ensuring that underrepresented classes receive better access to affordable credit and are just as committed to embracing diversity and inclusion in our hiring practices. We celebrate all cultures backgrounds perspectives and experiences and know that we can only become better together.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application interviewing completing any preemployment testing or otherwise participating in the employee selection process please email
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