Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Reddit- Base salary
- $217k–$303k Published base salary range
- Location
- Remote - United States Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Senior
About the job
About Reddit
Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust. It is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet, with 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors. Machine learning sits at the heart of how millions of people discover, connect, and engage with the world’s largest collection of human conversations.
What You’ll Work On
- Personalized recommendations, search, and ranking systems
- Intelligent advertising systems including ranking, bidding, measurement, and optimization
- Content, Advertisers, and User understanding
- Large-scale machine learning pipelines, model serving infrastructure, and real-time decision systems
- Applied AI and LLM-driven experiences
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and deploy production-grade machine learning models and systems at scale
- Own the full ML lifecycle: from problem definition and feature engineering to training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
- Build scalable data and model pipelines with strong reliability, observability, and automated retraining
- Work with large-scale datasets to improve ranking, recommendations, search relevance, prediction, content/user understanding, and optimization systems
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams
- Improve system performance across latency, throughput, and model quality metrics
- Research and apply state-of-the-art machine learning and AI techniques, including deep learning, graph & transformers based, and LLM evaluation/alignment
- Contribute to technical strategy, architecture, and long-term ML roadmap
Basic Qualifications
- 3-5+ years of experience building, deploying, and operating machine learning systems in production
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Go, or similar languages
- ML Fundamentals: strong grasp of algorithms, from classic statistical learning (XGBoost, Random Forests, regressions) to DL architectures (Transformers, CNNs, GNNs)
- Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- Experience designing scalable ML pipelines, data processing systems, and model serving infrastructure
- Ability to work cross-functionally and translate ambiguous product or business problems into technical solutions
- Experience improving measurable metrics through applied machine learning
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with recommender systems, search/ranking systems, advertising/auction systems, large-scale representation learning, or multimodal embedding systems
- Familiarity with distributed systems and large-scale data processing (Spark, Kafka, Ray, Airflow, BigQuery, Redis, etc.)
- Experience working with real-time systems and low-latency production environments
- Background in feature engineering, model optimization, and production monitoring
- Experience with LLM/Gen AI techniques, including LLM evaluation, alignment, fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, RAG/agentic systems and productionizing LLM-powered products at scale
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related quantitative field
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary range: $216,700—$303,400 USD. This role is eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, may also be eligible for a commission. 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.
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