Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Reddit
$226-362.4k
+ Equity
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
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Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$226-362.4k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 15+ years of industry experience building systems for relevance driven products
- Subject matter expert in Search, recommendation, and ML systems, able to solve complex problems in these domains that few others can
- Deep understanding of how to build a sustainable software systems at a large scale engineering organization
- Experience in influencing larger (100+ engineers) 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
What the job involves
- The Search and Answers team at Reddit focuses on delivering the most relevant results and recommendations when users search for anything on Reddit
- We provide this content to users in the form of Reddit Search and through Reddit Answers, our new gen AI product
- We are looking for a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead our Relevance team and take our search systems to the next level
- Our goal is to make Reddit Search the best place on the internet to find answers, opinions, and conversations
- Redditors produce the most amazing content about every niche topic in the world – this underleveraged data coupled with modern advances in AI systems is presenting a unique opportunity to quickly build a new kind of search engine
- You will design and build a large-scale system that can power highly relevant search experiences
- You will work across multiple areas of the stack, incl.query understanding, retrieval, ranking, features, measurement, LLM-based answers etc, partnering deeply with PMs, org leads, and other XFN to deliver reliable, high quality systems that can help Reddit Search scale to a billions users
- Delivers on technical initiatives that have significant company-wide impact
- Sets technical direction for the broader ML and Search teams at Reddit, able to identify opportunities and influence strategy for all of Reddit
- Mentors and grow Staff and Senior Staff engineers
- Create a strong healthy engineering culture
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 100,000 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 52M daily users and more than 50B monthly page views. While these figures are smaller than those of social media giants like Facebook and X, Reddits 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,m 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
(Co-Founder & CEO)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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