Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Marketplace Quality Remote - United States

ECL Kontor; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join their Ads Marketplace Quality team. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your expertise in machine learning and marketplace dynamics to enhance the efficiency of the ads marketplace. You'll develop algorithms that optimize auction and pricing mechanisms, ensuring value for both advertisers and users. This position offers the chance to lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to drive significant improvements in ad relevance and supply optimization. If you're passionate about transforming advertising platforms and making a meaningful impact, this is the opportunity for you.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) with Employer Match

Generous Time Off

Parental Leave

Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in product development with a focus on marketplace optimization.
• Strong knowledge of ads marketplace dynamics and auction mechanisms.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy development and execution for ads marketplace initiatives.
• Oversee end-to-end ML workflows to optimize ads marketplace efficiency.

Skills

Machine Learning

Data-Driven Decision Making

Marketplace Optimization

Communication Skills

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's Degree in a relevant field

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Spark

Kafka

Job description

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Marketplace Quality

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 97M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Reddit Ads Marketplace Quality team is growing and we are looking for an experienced machine learning engineer and domain expert to be part of the journey of developing a world-class marketplace and optimizing for users, advertisers and Reddit value.

In this role, you will be responsible for developing and executing a vision to improve our Ads Marketplace at Reddit. You will develop a deep understanding of our marketplace dynamics and identify areas of improvements by getting to the bottom of data, designing, implementing and shipping algorithms to production that improve our ads marketplace efficiency. You will specialize in improving and optimizing our ads auction and pricing mechanism which will have a direct impact on upleveling the utility for both our advertiser and user values. You will also have the opportunity to work on other org-wide strategic initiatives such as supply optimization and ad relevance, where you will drive and execute on Reddit’s vision to transform Reddit into an advertising platform that shows the right ads to the right users at the right time in the right context.

As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer in the Ads Marketplace Quality team, you will be an industry technical leader with domain knowledge in ads marketplace dynamics, auction and pricing. You will research, formulate, and execute on our mission to build end-to-end algorithmic solutions and deliver values to all the three-sided participants to our marketplace. You are expected to be part of the technical leadership at both team and organization level, and will have the opportunity to contribute your expertise and shape the future of the ads marketplace at Reddit.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and oversee the strategy development, quarterly planning and day-to-day execution of initiatives related to ads marketplace, auction and pricing.
• Proactively further our understanding of marketplace dynamics and develop algorithms to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our ads marketplace, auction and pricing.
• Oversee end-to-end ML workflows—from data ingestion and feature engineering to model training, evaluation, and deployment—that optimizes the ads marketplace efficiency.
• Be a mentor, lead both junior and senior engineers in implementing technical designs and reviews. Fostering a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and knowledge sharing across the organization.
• Be a cross-functional advocate for the team, collaborating with cross-functional teams (e.g., product management, data science, PMM, Sales etc.) to innovate and build products.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience with industry-level product development, with at least 5+ years focused on data-driven, marketplace-optimization problem space at scale.
• Strong knowledge of ads marketplace optimization. Demonstrated experience architecting ads marketplace design, improving and optimizing ads auction and pricing mechanisms.
• Solid understanding of large-scale data processing, distributed computing, and data infrastructure (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Beam, Flink).
• Proficiency in machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and libraries for feature engineering, model training, and inference.
• Proficiency with programming languages (Java, Python, Golang, C++, or similar) and statistical analysis.
• Proven technical leadership in cross-functional settings, driving architectural decisions and influencing stakeholders (product, data science, privacy, legal).
• Excellent communication, mentoring, and collaboration skills to align teams on a long-term vision for ads marketplace optimization.

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 redditinc.com/careers.

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [e-mail].