Senior Data Engineering Manager

About Upstart

At Upstart, we’re united by a mission that matters: to radically reduce the cost and complexity of borrowing for all Americans. Every day, we bring creativity, experimentation, and advanced AI to reshape access to credit, helping millions move forward financially with clarity and confidence.

As the leading AI lending marketplace, we partner with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit through technology that’s both radically intelligent and deeply human. Our platform runs over one million predictions per borrower using more than 1,800 signals, powering smarter, fairer decisions for millions of customers. But the numbers only hint at the impact. Every idea, every voice, and every contribution moves us closer to a world where credit never stands between people and their financial progress.

We’re proudly digital-first, giving most Upstarters the flexibility to do their best work from wherever they thrive, alongside teammates across 80+ cities in the US and Canada. Digital-first doesn’t mean distant. We’re intentional about in-person connection through team onsites, planning sessions, and moments that spark creativity and trust. And whether you choose to work primarily from home or collaborate in-person from one of our offices in Columbus, Austin, the Bay Area, or New York City (opening Summer 2026), you’ll have the support to work in the way that works best for you.

If you’re energized by tackling meaningful problems, excited to innovate with purpose, and motivated by work that truly matters, we’d love to hear from you.

Upstart’s ML Data Enablement team is a platform team with end-to-end ownership of the data lifecycle that powers all ML models across external vendors and internal datasets. The team’s mission is to make it dramatically easier for ML teams to discover, evaluate, trust, and product ionize high-impact data — with particular emphasis on accelerating new third-party data onboarding and unlocking under-leveraged internal data.

The team builds scalable infrastructure, standardized workflows, and quality guarantees that reduce integration time, increase evaluation velocity, and enforce strong ownership and SLAs across the ML data lifecycle.

As the Sr. Engineering Manager - ML Data Enablement, you will lead this organization and define the strategy, operating model, and execution roadmap that increases data evaluation velocity and reduces time-to-production for high-value data sources. You will partner cross-functionally with ML, ML Platform, Procurement, Data Platform, and product engineering teams to transform data from a bottleneck into a durable competitive advantage.

• Set and execute the technical strategy aligned to measurable north star metrics such as increasing data evaluation velocity and reducing time to production for high-value data sources.
• Establish clear end-to-end ownership across the third-party and internal data lifecycle, eliminating fragmented workflows and implicit accountability.
• Accelerate third-party data onboarding by operationalizing standardized vendor intake, secure retro ingestion, templated integrations, and configurable microservices that reduce engineering lift and cycle time.
• Drive robust data quality and reconciliation frameworks, including retro vs. production checks, ingress-level monitoring, and drift detection to prevent launch issues and downstream model degradation.
• Unlock internal data for ML innovation by improving metadata coverage, lineage standards, ownership contracts, and ML discoverability across high-impact internal domains
• Champion a company-wide shift toward data contracts and SLAs, ensuring data producers adopt clear ownership, quality standards, and monitoring practices for ML-critical datasets.
• Build and lead a high-performing team spanning data integration, data quality, metadata, and ML-critical data infrastructure, including standing up new dedicated integration capacity where needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics, or a related field (or its equivalent) + 8 years of engineer experience, including…