
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Reddit, Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $230,000 - $322,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Architect, build, and deploy large-scale ML systems powering recommendations, search, messaging, and content understanding
- Lead projects from ideation → modeling → experimentation → production → iteration
- Design and improve recommender systems and ranking models across surfaces (feed, search, notifications)
- Optimize for user engagement, discovery, and long-term value
- Build next-gen AI-powered search and recommendation experiences, including LLM-integrated systems
- Develop pipelines that help users find high-quality answers and content across Reddit’s corpus
- Build and optimize content embeddings and representation models for users, communities, and content
- Leverage and advance LLMs and multimodal models for deeper understanding and personalization
- Evaluate model performance, improve accuracy, and reduce bias
- Partner with Product, Data Science, Infra, and UX teams to solve complex problems
- Translate ambiguous business needs into scalable ML solutions
- Mentor engineers and raise the bar across the organization
- Establish best practices for ML development, experimentation, and responsible AI
- Act as a thought leader across teams and domains
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience building, deploying, and operating machine learning systems in production
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages, with solid software engineering fundamentals
- ML Fundamentals: a strong grasp of algorithms, from classic statistical learning (XGBoost, Random Forests, regressions) to DL architectures (Transformers, CNNs, GNNs)
- Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- Experience designing scalable ML pipelines, data processing systems, and model serving infrastructure
- Ability to work cross-functionally and translate ambiguous product or business problems into technical solutions
- Experience driving measurable impact through applied machine learning.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k with Employer Match
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Family Planning Support
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learningPythonGoXGBoostRandom ForestsregressionsTransformersCNNsGNNsPyTorch
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationproject managementcreativityadaptabilitycritical thinkingthought leadership