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Director, Machine Learning Engineering

Chime Financial, Inc·San Francisco, CA, USA·Posted 13 November 2026

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About the role Chime's Data Science & Machine Learning team powers decisions across the company, from how we protect members to how we build products for them. We're looking for a Director to lead that team through its biggest shift yet: moving from traditional models to a modern, AI-driven approach built on transformers and foundation models. You'll lead managers and staff-level engineers, define what great ML looks like at Chime's scale, and rebuild the practice around it. If you want to shape the future of ML at a company where it directly affects members' financial lives, this is the role. In this role, you can expect to Lead and grow Chime's ML organization, managing managers and staff-level engineers across all of Chime's ML work. Set the vision and roadmap for moving Chime's models from traditional approaches to transformer- and foundation-model-based systems. Coach your managers to build strong, high-performing teams, and raise the technical bar across the practice. Shape the architecture of Chime's ML platform, including how we train, fine-tune, serve and scale models on a modern GPU-based stack. Define what good ML looks like at Chime: standards for model development,…

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