Senior ML Engineer — Onboarding & Personalization

Discord Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 275,000; Full time

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Job summary

Discord is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for the Engagement ML team within Growth, focusing on the Onboarding squad. You will design end-to-end ML solutions to help new users discover servers, people, and content that convert a first session into a lasting connection.

The role emphasizes building 0→1 ML applications, productionizing features, embeddings, and online experimentation, with strong collaboration across product and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Machine Learning, Data Science, or Applied Science, with a track record of shipping end-to-end systems.
• Hands-on experience building modern recommendation systems: retrieval/ranking pipelines, embeddings, transforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale the recommendation systems that connect new users to communities and content.
• Solve cold-start personalization for users with little history on Discord.
• Build and deploy ML models that lift new-user retention.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to shape the Onboarding roadmap.

Skills

5+ years experience in ML/DS/Applied

Recommendation systems

Python

PyTorch/JAX/TensorFlow

Production ML systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

TensorFlow

Job description

Discord is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for the Engagement ML team within Growth, focusing on the Onboarding squad. You will design end-to-end ML solutions to help new users discover servers, people, and content that convert a first session into a lasting connection.

The role emphasizes building 0→1 ML applications, productionizing features, embeddings, and online experimentation, with strong collaboration across product and engineering teams.