Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance

United StatesRemote

Responsibilities

With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.
We’re looking for a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join our Feed Relevance team, which is responsible for the end-to-end systems that power personalization and ranking for the main Reddit feeds.
This work will directly enable our Machine Learning Engineers (MLEs) and engineers to quickly iterate and continuously improve the user experience.
You will also partner with Infra and Platform teams to inform the direction of our core infrastructure, building for the future of ML at Reddit. Responsibilities:
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.
High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org Benefits:
Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of
In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI).

Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k with Employer Match
Gender-Affirming Care
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
Generous Paid Parental Leave #LI-remote, #LI-JS5 Pay Transparency:
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.
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 provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state.
We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies.
The base salary range for this position is: $266,000 — $372,400 USD

It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.
This is a critical role that blends hands-on development with technical leadership , focusing on building scalable, extensible, and highly performant personalization systems.
You will be instrumental in defining the technical direction for the team, collaborating closely with Product and Engineering leadership to set the strategy, and working with other individual contributors to execute and scale our systems to serve tens of millions of users .
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
experience building systems for relevance driven products
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.
Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
This job posting may span more than one career level.