Engineering Manager, ML + Data Science

About the Role:

Do you thrive at the intersection of people leadership and applied machine learning? Do you get excited about building and mentoring multidisciplinary teams — ML engineers, data scientists, analysts, and analytics engineers — working together to solve some of the hardest problems in fraud detection?At Fingerprint, the Identification Accuracy team is the engine behind the ML model powering our Identification API — Fingerprint's flagship product. This team is responsible for the accuracy, reliability, and continuous improvement of that model, directly impacting the trust our enterprise customers place in our platform.We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead this team. In this role, you will foster a culture of high performance and scientific rigor, helping a diverse set of technical contributors grow while driving the roadmap that keeps Fingerprint's identification accuracy best-in-class.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow the Identification Accuracy team — a multidisciplinary group of ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts, and Analytics Engineers — fostering psychological safety, technical excellence, and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Own the team's roadmap in close partnership with senior engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, driving innovative solutions to identification-specific challenges and continuously raising the bar on model quality.
• Drive model accuracy outcomes by enabling your team to design, train, evaluate, and ship ML models that improve identification accuracy at scale across billions of devices.
• Build bridges across the organization — partnering closely with the Identification Engineering team (who operates the API your models power) as well as Product, and customer-facing teams to translate customer needs into technical priorities. Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences, translating model performance and roadmap tradeoffs into language that resonates with business stakeholders and executive leadership.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a leadership role in a ML or data science team in an agile, fast-paced environment.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in software engineering, machine learning, or a related technical discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams that ship production ML systems — from data pipelines and feature engineering through model training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Proven track record of building and developing high-performing, multidisciplinary teams including engineers, data scientists, and/or analysts.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex model behavior, data quality issues, and technical tradeoffs to both technical teammates and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success driving outcomes in fast-moving, scaling environments where priorities evolve and ambiguity is the norm.
• Experience managing teams that work with large-scale behavioral or event data in a production setting.
• Familiarity with ML infrastructure and MLOps tooling — experiment tracking (e.g., MLflow), feature stores, model registries, and CI/CD pipelines for ML.
• Background in fraud detection, identity, or trust & safety domains is a plus but not required.
• Hands-on experience with data stack technologies such as dbt or similar analytics engineering tooling.
• Comfort working closely with platform and API engineering teams to understand downstream requirements and latency constraints.

Compensation & Transparency

At Fingerprint, we believe in pay transparency — it's part of how we operate as a distributed, remote-first team.  Salaries are based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. 

Because this role is open across the United States and can be based anywhere our team members work from, the salary range reflects that geographic breadth: $159k - $215k. 

Some example salaries for specific locations are below:

NYC:  $187k - $215k

Chicago:  $158k - $183k

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including the successful candidate's location, experience, and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.