Senior Staff ML Engineer — GenAI Feed Relevance (Remote)

Reddit; United States; Remote; USD 266,000 - 372,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401k with employer match

Global benefits

Family planning support

Gender-affirming care

Mental health & coaching

Flexible vacation & volunteering time

Parental leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance, to lead GenAI-powered recommendations and influence core feed ranking architectures for millions of users. You will drive advanced ML systems, collaborate across design, product, data, and engineering teams, and mentor senior engineers to elevate the Relevance and Feeds orgs.

The role emphasizes user-centric innovation, scalable systems, and strong engineering culture, with opportunities to shape strategy and delivery

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.
• You are an undying advocate for the user with a strong focus on usability, scalability, reliability and quality.

Responsibilities

• Deliver on technical initiatives that have significant company-wide impact
• Set technical direction for the broader Relevance and Feeds teams at Reddit
• 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

Skills

Relevance ML systems

Recommendation algorithms

Large-scale software engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

User experience focus

Communication skills

Job description

Reddit is seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance, to lead GenAI-powered recommendations and influence core feed ranking architectures for millions of users. You will drive advanced ML systems, collaborate across design, product, data, and engineering teams, and mentor senior engineers to elevate the Relevance and Feeds orgs.

The role emphasizes user-centric innovation, scalable systems, and strong engineering culture, with opportunities to shape strategy and delivery