Staff AI/ML Engineer

<h2><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>Chime's Data Science & Machine Learning team builds the models, services, and platforms behind how millions of members manage and grow their financial lives. We're hiring a Staff AI/ML Engineer on our Lending and Cashflow team to lead the modeling behind cash flow underwriting and surface member insight: using members' transaction and deposit data to make fair, accurate credit decisions for people that traditional credit scores often miss.</p> <p>In this role, you'll build and deploy machine learning systems on some of the richest transactional and behavioral data in fintech, turning it into the credit decisions behind products like MyPay, Instant Loans, and SpotMe. This is a highly applied role: you'll own problems end to end, from framing the question through to a model running in production and moving a metric that matters, and you'll set the technical direction for how Chime underwrites with cash flow data.</p> <h2><strong>In this role, you can expect to</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Lead the design, training, and deployment of deep learning and classical ML underwriting models that turn members' transaction and cash flow data into credit decisions, from approval and line assignment to loss forecasting</li> <li>Take models from problem framing through to production — training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration — and stay accountable for how they behave once they're live</li> <li>Design and improve the systems around the model: feature pipelines, batch and real-time inference, monitoring, and retraining</li> <li>Partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Risk to turn ambiguous business problems into ML solutions, and to make sure the solution is the right one</li> <li>Connect model performance to member outcomes and business metrics, a