Machine Learning Manager, Feed Relevance (Retrieval)

Embedded Shishya; United States; Remote; USD 253,300 - 354,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k with employer match

Global benefit programs

Family planning support

Mental health & coaching

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Machine Learning Manager for Feed Relevance (Retrieval) to lead a high-impact ML engineering team building scalable retrieval systems powering Reddit’s personalized feeds for 120M+ daily users.

You will define the technical vision, roadmap, and mentor engineers, collaborating with ML platform, ranking, safety and product teams to improve retrieval quality and coverage while ensuring reliability and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 2+ years leading ML or recommender-systems teams.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale production ML systems (recommender/embedding/indexing).
• Strong understanding of retrieval, ranking, personalization and measurement strategies.

Responsibilities

• Define Technical Vision & Strategy for Feed Retrieval and align with product and business goals.
• Translate goals into a focused team roadmap with prioritization across quality, inventory, experimentation, infra cost and reliability.
• Coach and develop your team to grow skills and impact.
• Oversee design, development and optimization of retrieval systems delivering high-quality candidates for feeds.
• Establish measurement and learning practices to understand retrieval quality and impact.
• Collaborate with ML platform, infrastructure, ranking, safety and product teams to build scalable, low-latency systems.
• Maintain high standards for performance, reliability, latency and cost efficiency.
• Partner with recruiting to attract and hire diverse ML engineers.

Skills

Lead ML teams

Deep ML expertise

Recommender systems

Strategic thinking

Communication & collaboration

Impact-driven mindset

Tools

Production ML systems

Job description

Machine Learning Manager, Feed Relevance (Retrieval)

Remote - United States

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 . Reddit is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Feed Retrieval team. In this role, you’ll lead a high-impact team of Machine Learning Engineers building the systems that identify, retrieve, and shape the candidate inventory powering Reddit’s personalized feeds. Your team will work at the foundation of Feed Relevance: expanding the set of high-quality content Reddit can recommend, improving personalization and discovery for users across different levels of signal, and building scalable ML systems that directly shape the experiences of over 120M+ daily users. If applying ML / AI in production to improve Reddit Relevance excites you, then you’ve found the right place.

Responsibilities:

• Define Technical Vision & Strategy: Define the technical vision and long-term roadmap for Feed Retrieval, aligning large-scale recommender-system investments with Reddit’s product, ecosystem, and business objectives.
• Roadmap & Prioritization: Translate broad Feed Relevance goals into a focused team roadmap, making clear prioritization tradeoffs across model quality, inventory expansion, experimentation velocity, infrastructure cost, and operational reliability.
• Team Leadership & Development: Coach and support the development of your team, constantly seeking opportunities to grow their skills and impact.
• Technical Execution & Delivery: Oversee the design, development, and optimization of retrieval systems that source relevant, diverse, fresh, and high-quality candidates for personalized feed experiences.
• Measurement & Learning: Establish strong measurement, experimentation, and debugging practices so the team can understand retrieval quality, candidate coverage, source incrementality, and downstream impact.
• Platform & Infrastructure Collaboration: Collaborate with ML platform, infrastructure, ranking, safety, and product teams to build scalable, low-latency retrieval systems that can support the next generation of AI-powered recommendations.
• Operational Excellence:Maintain high standards for system performance, reliability, latency, cost efficiency, and responsible recommendation practices.
• Cross-Functional Partnership:Work with cross-functional partners from across the company to identify key areas of opportunity, set expectations, and communicate your team’s work.
• Recruiting & Growth:Partner with our incredible recruiting team to attract, interview, and hire diverse and talented machine learning engineers, growing a world-class team.

Qualifications:

• Experience Leading ML Teams: 2+ years of experience building and managing high-performing ML or recommender-systems teams.
• Deep ML Expertise: Hands-on experience with large-scale production ML systems, ideally including recommender systems, retrieval models, embedding-based systems, sequence models, transformer-based architectures, or LLM-powered recommendation applications.
• Technical Domain Knowledge: Strong understanding of recommender systems, especially candidate retrieval, embedding/indexing systems, ranking handoffs, feed personalization, exploration, content quality, and measurement strategies.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop and communicate a clear technical strategy across ambiguous problem spaces, balancing user relevance, ecosystem health, system scalability, and business impact.
• Impact-Driven Mindset: Passion for developing scalable, well-designed, and responsible AI solutions that drive business value.
• Exceptional Communication & Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative mindset, with the ability to effectively communicate complex technical topics to diverse audiences and build strong relationships with cross-functional partners.
• 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
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

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The base salary range for this position is:

$253,300 - $354,600 USD

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