Upstart
Senior Engineering Manager - Machine Learning Data Enablement
$195K–$270K
United States +2 · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Location
- United States
Remote
Remote - Experience
- 8 years of engineering experience, including at least 3 years of direct people management; preferred: 10+ years in data engineering and ML platform or ML data platform roles, with 5+ years managing engineering teams.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or its equivalent.
About the job
Leads the ML Data Enablement organization and sets its strategy and roadmap to improve data evaluation speed and bring high-value data sources into production for machine learning.
What you'll do
- Build and lead teams responsible for data integration, data quality, metadata, and ML-critical data infrastructure for training and inference.
- Set technical strategy and improve data quality, monitoring, ownership, and SLAs across the data lifecycle.
- Standardize third-party data onboarding and improve discovery and use of internal data.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field (or its equivalent) and 8 years of engineering experience, including at least 3 years of direct people management experience.
- Owned production data pipelines for both offline training and online inference.
- Experience building and scaling data systems in modern stacks and distributed systems architecture.
- Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives and designing and enforcing production data quality and observability frameworks.
Nice to have
- 10+ years in data engineering and ML platform or ML data platform roles, with 5+ years managing engineering teams.
- Experience with feature stores and real-time feature delivery or equivalent feature transformation interfaces used in inference.
Pay
$195,000—$270,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Databricks/Spark, Python, SQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD
AI focus
Leads infrastructure and processes that enable ML teams to discover, evaluate, trust, and productionize data for model training and inference.
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