AI Platform Lead Architect, GoFundMe
$216.5-324.5k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
Social fundraising platform
Open for applications
Social fundraising platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$216.5-324.5k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help people fundraise for the personal, business, and charitable causes that matter most to them.
Role
Who you are
- Have 9+ years of hands-on experience in machine learning engineering, AI development, software engineering, or related fields, emphasizing secure, large-scale, distributed system design, AI/ML pipeline development, and implementation
- Possess extensive experience designing, developing, and operating scalable backend systems, applying software engineering best practices such as domain-driven design, event-driven architectures, and microservices
- Have deep expertise in agentic workflows, AI evaluation solutions, prompt management, and secure AI development and testing practices
- Demonstrate strong knowledge of relational and document-based databases, data storage paradigms, and efficient RESTful API design
- Possess experience establishing robust CI/CD pipelines, automated testing (unit and integration), and deployment practices
- Exhibit strong leadership skills, including effective planning and management of complex projects, mentoring of team members, and fostering a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture
- Are an excellent communicator, able to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (preferred)
- Are proficient in Python and provisioning cloud-based infrastructure via code (AWS preferred)
- Sense of humor is optional but appreciated
What the job involves
- Join us! The GoFundMe team is searching for our next Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to help design our AI platform and develop our next generation of machine learning and AI-based services
- You will collaborate with an accomplished and motivated team of individuals to deliver high-impact solutions for our users and our business
- Design and implement AI platforms to enable scalable and secure access to LLMs from multiple model providers for diverse use cases
- Design and implement agentic workflows, agentic tool ecosystems, and LLM prompt management solutions
- Design, build, and optimize scalable model training, fine tuning, and inference pipelines, ensuring robust integration with production systems
- Influence technical strategy and approach to developing embedding stores, vector databases, and other reusable assets
- Lead initiatives to streamline ML and AI workflows, improve operational efficiency, and establish standardized procedures to achieve consistent, high-quality results across our AI systems
- Design and develop backend services and RESTful APIs using Python and FastAPI, integrating seamlessly with ML pipelines and services
- Take operational responsibility for team-owned services, including performance monitoring, optimization, troubleshooting, and participation in an on-call rotation
- Collaborate with both technical and non-technical colleagues, including data and applied scientists, software engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders, to deliver reliable and scalable ML-driven products
- Coach and mentor fellow ML engineers, promoting a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence within the team
- Employ a diverse set of tools and platforms including Python, AWS, Databricks, Docker, Kubernetes, FastAPI, Terraform, Snowflake, Coralogix, and GitHub to build, deploy, and maintain scalable, highly available machine learning infrastructure
Our take
One of the most well-known fundraising platforms in the world, GoFundMe makes raising money online exceptionally easy. The platform started initially with a focus on charity and good causes, but its scope has now expanded to include start-up business funding. What makes the platform attractive is its ability to democratize fundraising through the medium of online.
GoFundMe's rapid rise in popularity has been helped by its social media integrations and the speed at which individuals can start funds. With strategic foresight, the company launched its GoFundMe Guarantee in 2016, a pledge to protect donors from fraud or platform misuse - knowing that its continued growth could only be hampered by security issues or donor deception.
This guarantee is what has enabled the company to remain the largest crowdfunding platform in the world. Notably, it stands amongst the likes of Airbnb, Facebook, and Netflix in being backed by tech investors TCV.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Wide range of health insurance options, including medical, dental, and vision (GoFundMe covers 100% of employee premiums, and 80% of spouse and dependents)
- $600 annual fitness and wellness reimbursement
- Weekly massages
- Standing desks
- Fully-stocked kitchens & daily lunches
- Team off-sites & monthly social events
- Many of our offices are dog friendly
- 10 paid holidays, 17 days of accrued vacation per year, unlimited sick time & three volunteer days
- Enhanced parental leaves
- $50/month for employees commuting to and from work (public transit and/or parking)
- Caltrain GoPasses for our Bay Area commuters
- "Gives Back" program, where employees nominate fundraisers weekly for donations from GoFundMe
- Quarterly volunteer events in each office to give back to our local communities
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
- Access to learning tools and resources, including a subscription to Udemy, guest speakers, and internal brown bag sessions
Company HQ
Centennial, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Margaret Richardson
(Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, not founder)Formerly worked at Airbnb as Vice President of Trust and Director of Global Policy. They worked in Trust & Safety at Apple prior to becoming a Member of Pipeline Angels.
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