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Senior Engineering Manager, Machine Learning
Checkr INC · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 7 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 9 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Checkr INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Engineering Manager” (Computer and Information Systems Managers) in CA: $275k–$275k, median $275k. Most were filed at wage level II (100%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 7 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 9 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
About Checkr Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for AI verification in the moments that matter most: getting a new job, a new place to live, a car ride, childcare, even a date. Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, and Anthropic. We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company . We are hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Machine Learning Engineering team inside Checkr’s Data & ML organization. This team sits at the heart of our product's strategic advantage, making millions of background checks faster, more accurate, and more trustworthy. The team owns three connected areas: • Core product intelligence: NLP and classification systems, entity resolution, profile integrity, model accuracy, and the production services that power Checkr’s products. • Workforce integrity: resume and identity fraud, multi-signal risk detection, and new products that help customers identify sophisticated hiring fraud • ML and agent infrastructure: evaluation systems, observability, model lifecycle, agent orchestration, and reusable infrastructure that helps every team ship reliable AI faster. This is an engineering leadership role, not a research-management role: you will lead ML engineers across seniority levels, stay close enough to the work to set technical direction, and hold the team accountable for production outcomes. You will decide where ML should continue to create a strategic advantage for Checkr. You will also shape Checkr’s broader AI strategy. The near-term agenda includes building a measurable accuracy moat in our core products, launching an end-to-end workforce-integrity product, and creating the evaluation and knowledge infrastructure required to operate AI agents in a regulated domain. This role reports to the Sr. Director of Data & ML within Engineering. This role is based in San Francisco. We are looking for someone who is seeking less process and more shipping, less paperwork and more results. What you’ll do • Lead and grow the ML Engineering team . Hire, coach, and develop ML engineers. Set clear ownership, grow technical leaders, and build a team that generates its own roadmap. • Set the strategy and roadmap . Turn ambiguous company priorities into a focused, multi-quarter ML agenda. Put investment on work that improves customer outcomes, revenue, accuracy, reliability, or cost. Stop work that does not. • Raise the production engineering bar . Models and agents ship as dependable software: clear APIs, tests, CI/CD, observability, on-call ownership, and defined reliability targets. • Build the ML operating model. Establish shared approaches to evaluation, golden sets, training-data provenance, model and prompt versioning, monitoring, retraining, latency, and cost. Replace artisanal evaluation with repeatable systems. • Advance core product intelligence . Guide systems for classification, information extraction, entity resolution, profile integrity, and accuracy. Make model quality measurable in production and drive the feedback loops that improve it. • Launch new AI and fraud products . Partner with Product, Security, Operations, and go-to-market teams to turn signals across identity, resume, device, and employment data into customer products. • Lead Checkr’s agentic transition . Guide the design of AI systems that combine specialized models, LLMs, tools, and governed knowledge. • Operate as an executive partner . Explain technical choices and risks in plain language. Align Product Engineering, Product, Operations, Legal, Security, and compa