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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance

Work from home

Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.

United States only

Employer listed it 6 days ago · Added 5 days ago

First listed 6 days ago and still open.

Salary

$266k to $372k per year

Location

United States only

Timezone

US East

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Lead

Category

Data

Stated by the employer in the job description

Remote flexibility

Work from home

This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.

What the employer says

  • Source listing states candidate location: "Remote - United States"
  • Job description states: "U.S.-based"

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  • Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only

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About the role

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

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

Requirements

  • ·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.

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

How to apply

  1. 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
  2. 2Tailor your CV to the role at Reddit, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
  3. 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

Found 5d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.

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