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As we continue to evolve, our Team Members play an active role in improving experiences, driving meaningful change, and shaping the future of our business. We foster an environment where people are empowered to contribute ideas, develop their careers, make an impact, and help lead our continued transformation.\nOur Engineering teams are helping shape the future of Credit Acceptance through innovation. Team Members collaborate across the organization to solve complex challenges, build impactful solutions, challenge the status quo, and support informed business decisions. We value curiosity, continuous learning, and new ideas from people who are passionate about driving modernization and meaningful business impact.\nOutcomes and Activities:\nLead the vision and the strategic execution with a strong focus on continuous and long-term value creation across all participants of our flywheel\nCollaborate with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps and translate them into actionable quarterly plans.\nDrive execution and delivery of ML/AI solutions by managing priorities, deadlines, and deliverables, leveraging your technical expertise.\nDesign and deliver scalable, secure systems using state-of-the-art AI/ML technologies and industry best practices, and nurture the culture of creating high-quality, well-tested systems to address critical product and business needs.Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues to improve system reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.\nEnsure the security, scalability, and architectural integrity of feature designs through reviews across teams.\nDeliver hands-on solutions while mentoring other data professionals (including MLEs) within the organization\n\nExplore and apply advanced machine learning techniques, including large language models (LLMs), deep learning, and graph neural networks, to solve complex challenges across the organization.\nGuide a team of MLEs across different areas:Mentoring: Mentor team members on design principles, coding standards, and the adoption of AI productivity tools.\nRecommendations - Personalize guidance across different surfaces using deep learning methods; personalize layouts with Bayesian contextual multi-armed bandits\nGrowth: Foster long-term growth through data-driven causality and incrementality\nGen-AI: Power existing applications with Gen AI models and engineering to improve downstream experience and decisions\nLifecycle - Using ML models (such as XGBoost & Causal Meta-Learner-based model, etc), proactively guide business teams across different areas \nEngineering - With engineering partners, build ML and Gen-AI platform and inference pipelines for different types of models \n\nCompetencies: The following items detail how you will be successful in this role.\nCustomer Empathy: Customer Empathy is the ability to understand the perspectives, pain points, and experiences of customers. It involves actively putting oneself in the customer’s shoes, comprehending their needs and challenges, and using that understanding to provide a better, more customer-centric experience.\nEngineering Excellence: Engineering Excellence is about bringing great craftsmanship and thought leadership to deliver an outstanding product that delights customers and solves for the business. This involves the pursuit and achievement of high standards, best practices, innovation, and superior solutions.\nOne Team: A One Team mindset refers to a collaborative approach across the organization, where individuals work together seamlessly, without boundaries, as a single, cohesive team. Shared goals, open communication and mutual support create a sense of collective purpose. This enables teams to navigate challenges and pursue shared objectives more effectively.\n Owner’s Mindset: Owner’s Mindset involves adopting a set of behaviors that reflect a sense of responsibility, accountability, strategic thinking, and a proactive approach to managing your domain. As an owner, you understand the business and your domain(s) deeply and solve for the right outcome for the domain(s) and the business.\nRequirements:\nPhD in Computer Science, Stats, Economics, or a relevant technical field with at least 8+ years of relevant experience or MS with at least 10+ years of experience in machine learning and software engineering\n8+ years of hands-on experience designing, building and deploying AI (ML, DL, Gen-AI) models, including Reinforcement Learning algorithms, Recommendation systems, Transformers, fine-tuned LLMs, Regressions, etc., with a solid understanding of mathematics, statistics, and engineering needed to build such infrastructure \nHands-on expertise in scaling and maintaining production-grade ML services, with a strong focus on ML/LLM Operations (versioning, automation, observability, automated training and monitoring, etc.) and ability to balance ML model complexity with production requirements\nPassion for identifying new business opportunities and experience of using a test and learn approach to bring scalable and efficient solutions integrating AI algorithms, ML/LLM Ops, and s/w engineering \nExperience partnering with the engineering, product, business operations, legal and other teams while designing, building, and executing solutions\nStrong problem-solving skills with bias for action\nCandidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to one of the following hub locations: the greater Southfield, Michigan, area; the greater Bellevue, Washington, area; or the San Francisco Bay Area, California.\nPreferred\nExperience in automative industry, especially in building ML/AI systems while ensuring local and central regulations\nExperience in model interpretability and responsible AI practices.\nExpertise in data science, advanced experimentation and visualization techniques.\nExperience in designing and implementing pipelines using DAGs (e.g., Kubeflow, DVC, Ray)\nAbility to construct batch and streaming microservices exposed as gRPC and/or GraphQL endpoints\nExperience with Databricks MLflow for ML lifecycle management and model versioning\nHands-on experience with Databricks Model Serving for production ML deployments\nProficiency with GenAI frameworks/tools and technologies such as Apache Airflow, Spark, Flink, Kafka/Kinesis, Snowflake, and Databricks.Demonstrable experience in parameter-efficient fine-tuning, model quantization, and quantization-aware fine-tuning of LLM models\nHands-on knowledge of Chain-of-Thoughts, Tree-of-Thoughts, Graph-of-Thoughts prompting strategies\n\nTarget Compensation: This position offers a competitive base salary, with a range of $221,225 - $309,716.\nThis position is eligible for an annual variable incentive of cash and equity, between 15-30% of base salary. Actional amounts are based on individual performance.\nFinal compensation within the range is influenced by many factors including assigned hub location, role-specific skills, depth and experience level, industry background, relevant education and certifications.\nThis position follows a hybrid work model, offering two work-from-home days and three standard in-office days each week with the team and key stakeholders at the local office.\nINDENGLP\nBenefits\nExcellent benefits package that includes 401(K) match, adoption assistance, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive medical/ dental/vision and many nonstandard benefits that make us a Great Place to Work \nOur Company Values:\nTo be successful in this role, Team Members need to be:\nPositive by maintaining resiliency and focusing on solutions\nRespectful by collaborating and actively listening\nInsightful by cultivating innovation, accumulating business and role specific knowledge, demonstrating self-awareness and making quality decisions\nDirect by effectively communicating and conveying courage\nEarnest by taking accountability, applying feedback and effectively planning and priority setting\nExpectations:\nRemain compliant with our policies processes and legal guidelines\nAll other duties as assigned\nAttendance as required by department \nAdvice!\nWe understand that your career search may look different than others. Our hiring team wants to make sure that this would be a fit not just for us, but for you long term. If you are actively looking or starting to explore new opportunities, send us your application!\nP.S.\nWe have great details around our stats, success, history and more. We’re proud of our culture and are happy to share why - let’s talk!\nRequired degrees must have been earned at institutions of Higher Education which are accredited by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or equivalent.\nCredit Acceptance is dedicated to providing an inclusive environment for all. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and value a culturally diverse workforce. We believe in ensuring all team members demonstrate mutual respect for one another. 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