Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance Reddit · Remote · US · Machine Learning Engineering $266,000–$372,400 7w ago

Aimlroles; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 266,000 - 372,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k match

Global benefits programs

Family planning support

Gender-affirming care

Mental health benefits

Flexible vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance, to drive GenAI-powered recommendations using Reddit’s unique data and scale. You will shape core architectures behind feed ranking and personalization for tens of millions of users, aligning with product and design teams to deliver impactful experiences.

You will lead technical direction for Relevance and Feeds, mentor senior engineers, and foster a strong engineering culture, with emphasis on reliability, usability, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience building systems for relevance driven products.
• Subject matter expert in relevance, recommendation, and ML systems; able to solve complex problems in these domains that few others can.
• Experience building sustainable software systems at a large scale engineering organization.
• Experience influencing organizations on technical direction and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Deliver on technical initiatives with significant company-wide impact.
• Set technical direction for the Relevance and Feeds teams; identify opportunities and influence strategy across orgs.
• Collaborate with management on goal setting, planning, and de-risking critical projects.
• Mentor and grow Senior and Staff engineers.
• Create a strong, healthy engineering culture.

Skills

Relevance systems

ML engineering

Large-scale systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical leadership

User experience focus

Communication

Job description

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.

As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance, you’ll drive the development of GenAI-powered recommendations, leveraging Reddit’s unique community landscape, rich conversational data, and dynamic engagement patterns. Your deep modeling expertise will directly shape the core architectures behind feed ranking, enabling breakthrough personalization for tens of millions of users.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver on technical initiatives that have significant company-wide impact
• Set technical direction for the broader Relevance and Feeds teams at Reddit, able to identify opportunities and influence strategy across multiple orgs
• Work with management on goal setting, planning, and de-risking critical projects
• Mentor and grow Senior and Staff engineers
• Create a strong healthy engineering culture

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of industry experience building systems for relevance driven products
• Subject matter expert in relevance, recommendation, and ML systems; able to solve complex problems in these domains that few others can
• Deep understanding of how to build sustainable software systems at a large scale engineering organization
• Experience in influencing organizations on technical direction/best practices
• Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, business & data teams to deliver great experiences.
• Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, reliability and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how people & machines interact with software at scale.
• High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org.

Benefits:

• 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
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

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/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base salary range for this position is:$266,000—$372,400 USD

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