Senior Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Ads ML Experience Platform New Remote - United States

Reddit, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 217,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k with employer match

Mental health & coaching benefits

Parental leave

Family planning support

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Systems Engineer to design and operate large-scale offline ML experimentation platforms and training orchestration frameworks for the Ads ML Experience Platform. The role emphasizes reproducible research, scalable workflows, and robust model deployment in a remote-friendly US context.

You will collaborate with ML researchers and engineers to accelerate experimentation velocity, build artifact/versioning systems, and enable autonomous and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in infra/platform engineering or large-scale distributed systems.
• 2+ years building and operating production ML infrastructure, developer SDKs, platform APIs, or self-service AI tooling.
• Experience building workflow orchestration systems, developer platforms, or large-scale automation frameworks.
• Experience with distributed data processing systems such as Spark, Flink, Ray, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with modern orchestration and workflow technologies such as Kubeflow, Argo, Airflow, or similar frameworks.
• Experience building offline ML experimentation platforms, model registries, experiment tracking systems, or training orchestration frameworks.
• Experience building and operating agentic AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, autonomous workflows, and agent communication/runtime frameworks (e.g., MCP, A2A, and orchestration systems) is a strong plus

Responsibilities

• Design and build large-scale offline ML experimentation platforms that enable reproducible research, model development, evaluation, and promotion workflows.
• Develop production-grade training orchestration frameworks supporting distributed training, hyperparameter optimization, model evaluation, and automated retraining.
• Build infrastructure for experiment tracking, metadata management, lineage, artifact versioning, model registries, and reproducibility.
• Partner with ML engineers and researchers to improve experimentation velocity and operational efficiency.
• Build automated workflows for model promotion, rollback, compliance validation, and continuous evaluation.
• Design and build an agentic AI execution platform supporting autonomous and human-in-the-loop workflows, including multi-agent orchestration, memory/context systems, and scalable workflow infrastructure.

Skills

Large-scale distributed systems

Production ML infra

Workflow orchestration

Distributed data processing

Agentic AI systems

Multi-agent orchestration

Model registries

Experiment tracking

Tools

Spark

Flink

Ray

Kubeflow

Argo

Airflow

Job description

Senior Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Ads ML Experience Platform

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 has a flexible workforce! If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. Don't live near one of our offices? No worries: You can apply to work remotely in any country in which we have a physical presence

Team Overview

We are building the next generation of ML research tools and agentic AI platforms that power machine learning development across Reddit. Our mission is to accelerate the Ads ML lifecycle – from experimentation and training to deployment, evaluation, and autonomous operations – through scalable platform services, intelligent automation, and developer-centric tooling.

Our team owns critical platform capabilities including offline ML experimentation systems, production training orchestration frameworks, ML lifecycle automation and, agentic ML frameworks that enable faster model iterations.

We are looking for an experienced engineer with deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems, ML platforms, and emerging agentic architectures to help define and build the foundational tooling for the next generation of our machine learning devX tooling.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build large-scale offline ML experimentation platforms that enable reproducible research, model development, evaluation, and promotion workflows.
• Develop production-grade training orchestration frameworks supporting distributed training, hyperparameter optimization, model evaluation, and automated retraining.
• Build infrastructure for experiment tracking, metadata management, lineage, artifact versioning, model registries, and reproducibility.
• Partner with ML engineers and researchers to improve experimentation velocity and operational efficiency.
• Build automated workflows for model promotion, rollback, compliance validation, and continuous evaluation.
• Design and build an agentic AI execution platform supporting autonomous and human-in-the-loop workflows, including multi-agent orchestration, memory/context systems, and scalable workflow infrastructure.

What You Bring

• 5+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering or large-scale distributed systems.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building and operating production ML infrastructure, developer SDKs, platform APIs, or self-service AI tooling.
• Experience building workflow orchestration systems, developer platforms, or large-scale automation frameworks.
• Experience with distributed data processing systems such as Spark, Flink, Ray, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with modern orchestration and workflow technologies such as Kubeflow, Argo, Airflow, or similar frameworks.
• Experience building offline ML experimentation platforms, model registries, experiment tracking systems, or training orchestration frameworks.
• Experience building and operating agentic AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, autonomous workflows, and agent communication/runtime frameworks (e.g., MCP, A2A, and orchestration systems) is a strong plus
• Experience running end-to-end model development and iteration cycles at scale is a plus
• 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

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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The base salary range for this position is:

$216,700 - $303,400 USD

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