Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Reddit
Ads Marketplace Quality
$216.7-303.4k
Plus equity
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$216.7-303.4k
Plus equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- Tracking records of consistently driving KPI wins through systematic works around model architecture and feature engineering
- 3+ years of experience with industry-level product development
- 4+ years of end-to-end experience of training, evaluating, testing, and deploying industry-level machine learning models
- 4+ years of experience of orchestrating complicated data generation pipelines on large-scale dataset
- Proficiency with programming languages (Java, Python, Golang, C++, or similar) and statistical analysis
- Experience with Ads (Marketplace) domain is a plus
- Experience with Ads Relevance is a plus
- Desire to mentor other engineers and level-up the team’s strength
What the job involves
- In this role, you will be responsible for developing and executing a vision to improve our Ads Marketplace
- You will develop a deep understanding of our marketplace dynamics and identify areas of improvements by getting to the bottom of data, design, implement and ship algorithms to production that improve our ads delivery funnel with the goal of upleveling the utility for both our advertiser and user values
- In particular, you will work on our Ad Relevance initiatives, where you will drive and execute on Reddit’s vision to transform Reddit into an advertising platform that serves ads that are highly relevant to our users
- As a senior machine learning engineer in the Ads Marketplace Quality team, you will be an industry technical leader with domain knowledge in marketplace dynamics, you will research, formulate, and execute on our mission to build end-to-end ML solutions and deliver the highly relevant ad to the right user under the right context with data and ML driven solutions
- You will deliver with strong execution and cross-functional management skills
- Building industrial-level models for critical ML tasks with advanced modeling techniques to improve ad relevance on Reddit
- Research, implement, test, and launch new model architectures including deep neural networks with advanced pooling and feature interaction architectures
- Proactively further our understanding of marketplace dynamics and develop algorithms to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our ads ranking and auction
- Drive technical roadmaps and lead day to day project execution, and contribute meaningfully to team vision and strategy
- Lead junior engineers in implementing technical designs
- Be a cross-functional advocate for the team, collaborate with product managers and data scientists to innovate and build products
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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