Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance
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
- Mentor and grow Senior and Staff engineers
- Create a strong healthy engineering culture
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.
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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The base salary range for this position is:
$266,000 - $372,400 USD
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