Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Targeting Remote - United States

Reddit, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 230,000 - 322,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Staff Machine Learning Engineer focused on Ads Targeting. In this role, you'll lead the design and execution of innovative ML solutions that enhance targeting products, ensuring the delivery of relevant audiences to advertisers. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor junior engineers, and drive the technical roadmap for complex projects. This position offers a unique opportunity to impact the user experience significantly while working with cutting-edge technologies in a dynamic environment. If you're passionate about machine learning and eager to make a difference, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) with Employer Match

Generous Time Off

Parental Leave

Equity in the form of RSUs

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in machine learning model training and deployment.
• Experience with deep learning models for retrieval and ranking systems.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design and execution of ML-based targeting products.
• Drive research direction and technical roadmap for complex projects.

Skills

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Data Analysis

Mentorship

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's Degree in Machine Learning or related field

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Spark

Kubeflow

Airflow

BigQuery

Job description

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Targeting

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

We’re evolving and continuing our mission to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Providing a delightful and relevant experience to our users applies to our Ads like all of our offerings, and we’re excited to build a product that is best-in-class for our users and advertisers. The year ahead is a busy one - join us!

Ads Targeting ML engineers are focused on designing and implementing ML systems and solutions for improving targeting products. The team’s projects involve building large-scale offline & online retrieval systems across several dimensions to improve contextual & behavioral targeting for targeting products.

As a staff machine learning engineer in the ads targeting quality team, you will own and execute our mission to automate targeting and deliver the most relevant audiences to advertisers under the right context with ML-driven solutions.

Your Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end design and execution of ML-based targeting products like auto targeting, user lookalikes etc.
• Drive research direction and technical roadmap for complex projects, lead day to day project execution, and contribute meaningfully to team vision and strategy.
• Be a thought leader for the team and collaborate closely with product managers and cross-functional partners to develop and prioritize the roadmap based on data analysis, industry research and product research.
• Research, implement, test, and launch new model architectures for retrieval using deep learning (GNNs, transformers, two tower models, LLMs) with a focus on improving advertiser outcomes.
• Provide mentorship to junior MLEs.
• Own offline & online experimentation of ML models for improving targeting products.
• Work on large scale data systems, and product integration.
• Collaborate closely with multiple stakeholders cross product, engineering, research and marketing.

Required Qualifications

• Tech lead experience in a product ML team driving the research and technical direction to improve business outcomes using applied ML.
• Experience with ads retrieval modeling, ranking or recommendation systems.
• Experience with deep learning models for retrieval (two tower, GNNs, transformers, LLMs).
• 5+ years of end-to-end experience of training, evaluating, testing, and deploying machine learning models.
• 2+ years of experience building machine learning models with Tensorflow/Pytorch.
• Experience with large scale data processing & pipeline orchestration tools like Spark, Dataflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, BigQuery.
• Experience working with nearest-neighbor search systems is a big plus.
• Experience working with cross functional stakeholders across research, product & infrastructure to productize ML research.
• Experience with deep learning, representation learning or transfer learning is preferred.
• Tech lead experience in a product team is strongly preferred.

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.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay 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 pay range for this position is:

$230,000 - $322,000 USD

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].

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