Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Upstart is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead its machine learning simulation platform team. The role owns the platform roadmap, improves simulation reliability, accuracy, and cost efficiency, expands coverage and self-service workflows, and grows a team of engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the engineering roadmap for Upstart's marketplace simulation platform, and decide which teams and use cases it serves next
• Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers working across distributed services, offline data pipelines, and large-scale compute
• Raise simulation reliability and accuracy to a level teams trust for launch decisions, including automated checks that detect drift between simulated and production results
• Reduce the cost of each simulation as usage grows, through smart architecture and compute choices
• Extend simulation coverage across the lending funnel and into new loan products, partnering with the teams who own each stage of pricing and decisioning logic
• Turn recurring questions from machine learning, analytics, and capital markets partners into self-serve simulation workflows

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years of engineering management experience
• Experience leading engineering teams that build and operate backend platforms or distributed systems in production
• Experience delivering platform or infrastructure programs that span multiple teams
• Proficiency with some or many of the following: Python, Kotlin, AWS, Kubernetes, Databricks, Spark
• Knowledge of simulation, backtesting, experimentation, or offline model evaluation systems
• Experience supporting machine learning teams or operating MLOps infrastructure, including model inference, workflow orchestration, and offline feature pipelines
• Knowledge of lending, pricing, credit risk, or marketplace economics
• Ability to treat compute cost and efficiency as an engineering goal alongside reliability
• Ability to build shared platforms where partner teams own part of the logic, and to keep those interfaces steady as systems evolve
• Experience developing senior engineers and emerging engineering leaders

Benefits

• Remote work; the role is available remotely, and the majority of employees can live and work anywhere in the U.S.; employees are encouraged to attend regular in-person onsites, with most teams meeting once or twice per quarter for 2–4 consecutive days at a time.
• Target bonuses and bonus opportunities.
• Equity compensation and annual equity grants that vest quarterly.
• 401(k) or Group Retirement Savings Plan with a company match of $2 for every $1 contributed, up to $15,000 annually (USD in the US, CAD in Canada).
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with discounted stock purchase options for eligible employees (US only).
• Comprehensive health coverage, including medical, dental, vision, and wellness resources for US employees and supplemental health coverage for Canada.
• Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart for eligible plans (US only).
• Life insurance and disability coverage.
• Paid time off, sick leave, and company holidays, in line with local requirements.
• Paid family and parental leave; duration varies by country.
• Family-centered benefits to support fertility, parenthood, and caregiving needs.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offering mental health support and life-centered resources.
• Financial wellness resources, including access to financial planning tools and a financial concierge service (US only).
• Annual wellness allowance to support physical and emotional well-being and personal development.
• Annual productivity allowance to invest in relevant tools and resources.
• Team events, all-company updates, and employee resource groups (ERGs).
• Catered lunches and fully stocked micro-kitchens when working from offices in the Bay Area, Austin, Columbus, and New York City.

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