# Director, Machine Learning Engineering

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, eva

- **Id**: 4276228
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/chime-director-machine-learning-engineering>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T18:53:21Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T19:04:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7114
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Generous vacation, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Digital Banks & Neobanks

## Company

- **Id**: 3966
- **Name**: Chime
- **Domain**: chime.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/chime>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.833
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 54
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 269000
- **Max**: 373000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 373000

## Technologies

- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T19:04:25Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 112 · green card filings: 38; Filings 12m: 112

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 54
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T19:42:48Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 373000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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