Senior ML Engineer: Ads Forecasting & Opportunity Modeling

Reddit; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

Flexible vacation & Reddit global days

Family planning funds & 4+ months paid

Personal & professional development

Paid volunteer time off

Workspace & home office benefits

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a hands-on Forecasting ML Engineer to build and operate forecasting models that help advertisers understand campaign potential and investment tradeoffs. You will own problem formulation, technical design, evaluation, deployment, and iteration, collaborating with Product, Data Science, Ads Delivery, Audience, and Creative teams.

Responsibilities include building production forecasting pipelines, improving model generalization, and delivering credible scenario estimates to guide

Qualifications

• Strong foundations in statistical learning, probability, and optimization.
• Experience building and evaluating forecasting or response-prediction models.
• Proficiency in designing and deploying production ML pipelines.
• Experience turning product questions into concrete technical plans and leading projects.
• Demonstrated ability to work across Product, Data Science, Ads Delivery, Audience, and Creative teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and own forecasting models and production capabilities for advertising outcomes.
• Translate advertiser questions into modeling problems involving delivery, reach, performance, and investment tradeoffs.
• Develop approaches for model generalization, including sparse data, seasonality, and changing marketplace conditions.
• Measure forecast accuracy, calibration, uncertainty, and performance across advertiser cohorts.
• Deliver reliable end-to-end forecasting systems with monitoring and iteration.
• Collaborate across functions to design, code-review, and mentor engineers on forecasting projects.

Skills

Statistical learning

Probability

Optimization

Forecasting

Response prediction

Time-series

ML pipelines

Python

Cross-functional

Job description

Reddit is seeking a hands-on Forecasting ML Engineer to build and operate forecasting models that help advertisers understand campaign potential and investment tradeoffs. You will own problem formulation, technical design, evaluation, deployment, and iteration, collaborating with Product, Data Science, Ads Delivery, Audience, and Creative teams.

Responsibilities include building production forecasting pipelines, improving model generalization, and delivering credible scenario estimates to guide