Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Reddit
Core Experience and Growth
$216.7-303.4k
+ RSUs
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$216.7-303.4k
+ RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience building deep learning models using mainstream ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch)
- 5+ years of experience training, evaluating, testing, and deploying industry-level models
- 5+ years of experience orchestrating data generation pipelines on large-scale datasets
- Successful track record of applying machine learning techniques to real-world problems
- Fluent in data analysis and SQL
- First-hand familiarity with AB testing using an experimentation platform
- Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience writing production-quality software (preferred Python or Go)
- Experience with content recommendations and personalization is a plus
- Passionate about building delightful products for users
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule
- Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity
- BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- The Growth organization at Reddit connects users to their communities and creates engaging loops to encourage them to keep coming back
- The team is a central part of our product and ensures that new users in our platform have a meaningful experience
- We drive company-level impact and we push forward the cutting edge of engineering, using tools such as ML and LLMs, to drive sustainable user growth across our markets
- We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the Growth team responsible for building users’ very first experiences on Reddit–the onboarding flow, first and early feeds, and notifications
- This is a high impact role where you will own projects from ideation to production, working with our super-talented cross-functional team
- You'll closely collaborate with product and design stakeholders, and be responsible for the engineering architecture and execution of key product features
- You will also identify opportunities to use, configure, and deploy ML models and/or LLMs to create or improve product features
- You will provide technical direction to junior engineers
- Use ML and/or LLMs to personalize first and early user experiences on Reddit
- Build systems for real-time feature fetching and model inference
- Build systems for recurring training of models using modern architectures (deep learning, transformers or other sequential models)
- Work closely with ML Platform teams to provide feedback on and improve Reddit’s ML infrastructure
- Work with Product and Design partners to identify user problems, and design solutions to these problems using ML and/or LLMs
- Contribute meaningfully to our team’s strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning our future. Don’t just come along for the ride
- Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs
- Foster a healthy engineering culture and collaborate with other engineers
Our take
Reddits is an online platform that hosts thousands of message board communities (known as subreddits) designed to foster authentic human connection. With more than 130,000 communities covering everything from food, entertainment and sports, to niche interests for highly specific audiences, there's virtually a space for everyone.
The platform attracts over 120 million daily users and billions of monthly page views. While these figures are smaller than those of social media giants like Facebook and X, Reddit stands out by offering easily discoverable communities where users can dive deep into virtually any topic imaginable.
Today, Reddit continues to grow its user base and expand its reach, remaining a unique hub for conversation, connection and shared interests. With its strong community-driven model and steady revenue streams, it's most definitely positioned to stay a central part of online culture for years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
57% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
- Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal & professional development funds
- Paid volunteer time off
- Workspace & home office benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Steve Huffman
(CEO & Founder)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO for 5 years. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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