Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance, you'll drive the development of GenAI-powered recommendations, leveraging Reddit’s unique community landscape, rich conversational data, and dynamic engagement patterns. Your deep modeling expertise will directly shape the core architectures behind feed ranking, enabling breakthrough personalization for tens of millions of users.

Responsibilities

Deliver on technical initiatives that have significant company-wide impact

Set technical direction for the broader Relevance and Feeds teams at Reddit, able to identify opportunities and influence strategy across multiple orgs

Work with management on goal setting, planning, and de-risking critical projects

Qualifications

10+ years of industry experience building systems for relevance driven products

Subject matter expert in relevance, recommendation, and ML systems; able to solve complex problems in these domains that few others can

Deep understanding of how to build sustainable software systems at a large scale engineering organization

Experience in influencing organizations on technical direction/best practices

Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, business & data teams to deliver great experiences.

Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, reliability and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how people & machines interact with software at scale.

High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org.

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support

Pay Transparency

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

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