Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Reddit
Core Ads Ranking
$230-322k
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
Posted today
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Posted today
$230-322k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 1+ years of management experience leading ML-focused teams
- 6+ years of experience building and scaling machine learning models, and working with state-of-the-art machine learning models
- 4+ years of hands-on experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch
- Proven ability to train, evaluate, and deploy large-scale models
- Experience working with foundational models, user understanding, or content understanding
- Experience with Ads is a plus
What the job involves
- The Core Ads Ranking team advances user representation and graph learning, improves sequence modeling across ads verticals, and builds robust pipelines and state-of-the-art architectures for foundational models. The team also leads core initiatives in knowledge distillation, model calibration, and heuristic improvement
- This role offers an opportunity to shape and scale Reddit’s foundational modeling and deep user-understanding roadmap, while collaborating with downstream teams including Retrieval, Shopping, Click Prediction, Video View-Through Prediction, Conversion Prediction, and App Ads Modeling. The role calls for a leader with deep machine learning expertise, strategic vision, and a collaborative mindset
- Define and execute a roadmap for foundational models and user understanding, balancing ambiguous long-term investments with measurable milestones
- Partner with vertical customer teams, horizontal signal teams, and infrastructure and platform teams to align on direction, strategy, priorities, and constraints
- Oversee the model development lifecycle from ideation to deployment, ensuring high standards of ML performance, reliability, and robustness
- Recruit, mentor, and retain ML talent while fostering a culture of growth, collaboration, and technical excellence
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.
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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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