Senior Engineering Manager, Machine Learning

Checkr (Forbes Cloud 100 2025, YC Breakthrough Company) is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Machine Learning Engineering team inside its Data & ML organization. The team owns three connected areas: core product intelligence (NLP, classification, entity resolution), workforce integrity (resume/identity fraud detection), and ML/agent infrastructure (evaluation systems, model lifecycle, agent orchestration). This is an engineering leadership role requiring close-to-the-work technical direction and accountability for production outcomes. Hybrid in San Francisco, CA (3+ days/week). Salary: $302,000–$355,000 USD. Posted 2026-09-08.

• 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. • Fluency with modern LLM systems, including structured outputs, tool use, agent orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, latency, quality, and cost trade-offs. • Strong people leadership: you create leverage through clear ownership, candid feedback, delegation, and coaching.