Machine Learning Manager, Notifications Relevance

Reddit, Inc.

Engineering Manager leading Notifications Relevance team at Reddit. Shaping the future of Notifications through machine learning and user engagement strategies.

Posted 4/23/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $230,000 - $322,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PyTorchRay

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the team that architects and designs notifications relevance at Reddit.
Guide team on holistic, adaptive systems covering budgeting optimization, candidate retrieval, and ranking.
Work with ML engineers to design, implement, and optimize machine-learning models that drive personalization and user re-engagement.
Participate in the full development cycle: design, develop, QA, experiment, analyze, and deploy.
Build and maintain a diverse team that can collaborate across disciplines to find technical solutions to complex challenges.
Serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team’s plans align with company goals.
Communicate your team’s work and set expectations with cross-functional stakeholders.
Help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them.
Constantly seek opportunities to push your engineers & managers outside their comfort zone and turn followers into leaders.

Requirements

What you’ll need

2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams.
5+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or Software Engineer working on large-scale machine learning systems.
Deep understanding of building and deploying large-scale recommender systems (retrieval + ranking) in production.
Hands-on experience working with deep learning models, sequential features and real-time systems.
Experience with distributed training and inference using tools like Ray, PyTorch Distributed, or similar.
Familiarity with reinforcement learning or multi-objective optimization in recommendation systems.
Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, results-oriented, biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems

Benefits

Comp & perks

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 learningdeep learningrecommender systemsdistributed traininginferencereinforcement learningmulti-objective optimizationlarge-scale systemssoftware engineeringcandidate retrieval

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvinginnovationresults-orientedself-directedadaptabilitymentorshipstrategic thinking