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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Retrieval & Targeting

United StatesListed 5d agoPosted by the employer Oct 23, 2026Listing ends Dec 28, 2026

Compensation: $230k–$322k
Location: United States
Fully remoteMore jobs: United States
Employment: Full-timeStaff / Principal
Category: EngineeringMedia / Creator

Role skills

machine learning deep learning tensorflow pytorch embeddings neural networks nlp python

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About the job

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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

Team Description

The Ads Retrieval ML team builds the machine learning systems that identify relevant advertising candidates for Reddit users. Retrieval sits at the heart of the ads delivery funnel: before downstream ranking and auction decisions, our models determine which campaigns and ads are eligible to compete. We work on large-scale retrieval across multiple objectives, placements, and geographies. Our work combines representation learning, candidate generation, nearest-neighbor search, behavioral and contextual signals, and rigorous offline and online experimentation.

Role Description

We are looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Retrieval and Targeting ML team. You will lead the design and evolution of retrieval models and modeling practices that improve relevance, advertiser outcomes, and user experience at Reddit scale. This is an applied ML role centered on retrieval modeling and end-to-end product impact. You will be expected to stay close to the technical details—from data and objective design through model development, evaluation, experimentation, and launch—while setting direction for other engineers.

Responsibilities

Define the technical direction and multi-year roadmap for ads retrieval modeling in partnership with engineering, product, data science, and ads stakeholders.
Design, develop, and launch candidate-generation and retrieval models for campaigns and ads across Reddit’s advertising surfaces.
Apply modern approaches such as two-tower architectures, representation learning, embeddings, sequence models, graph-based methods, and other deep learning techniques when they create meaningful product value.
Improve the retrieval stack across key modeling decisions, including objectives, labels, sampling strategies, hard-negative mining, feature design, embedding generation, candidate filtering, and retrieval depth.
Work with approximate nearest-neighbor and vector retrieval systems, reasoning about recall, relevance, freshness, diversity, coverage, latency, and cost trade-offs.
Establish strong evaluation practices that connect retrieval metrics—such as recall, precision, candidate coverage, calibration, and downstream lift—to ads and user outcomes.
Lead offline analysis and online experiments, interpret ambiguous results, and translate findings into the next modeling iteration.
Partner with downstream ranking, ads platform, auction, measurement, and product teams to ensure retrieval models integrate effectively into the full ads funnel.
Write design documents, review code and model changes, and raise the quality bar for modeling, testing, observability, and production ownership.
Mentor ML engineers and help grow the team’s expertise in retrieval, recommendation, and representation learning.

Required Qualifications

7+ years of industry experience, including substantial experience building and shipping applied ML products.
Deep experience with information retrieval, candidate generation, recommender systems, ranking, or related relevance problems.
Strong understanding of retrieval modeling concepts, including DNN, embeddings, two-tower or dual-encoder models, approximate nearest-neighbor search, and multi-stage retrieval.
Deep experience training, evaluating, debugging, and deploying deep learning models using TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar frameworks.
Demonstrated ownership of ML projects from problem framing and data preparation through offline evaluation, online experimentation, production launch, and iteration.
Strong command of experimental design and model evaluation, including how offline retrieval metrics relate to downstream business and user metrics.
Experience working with large-scale behavioral, contextual, or content datasets and complex feature pipelines.
Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to write clear, reliable, maintainable production code.
Technical leadership experience: setting direction, leading complex projects, influencing partner teams, and mentoring other engineers.
Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain complex modeling choices to technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with ads retrieval, ads ranking, ad targeting, ad serving, recommendation, search relevance, or marketplace optimization
Experience modeling user, content, campaign, or ad interactions with sequential, graph, or multimodal signals
Experience connecting retrieval improvements to downstream ranking, auction, conversion, revenue, or user-experience outcomes
Experience in ads marketplaces at peer companies
Publications, patents, or industry contributions in applied ML or ranking systems
Experience with sequential modeling (e.g., RNNs, Transformers)

Benefits

100% remote opportunity (we have 4 office locations for hybrid/onsite work preference in NY, SF, LA and Chicago)
Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k with Employer Match
Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
Family Planning Support
Gender-Affirming Care
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
Generous Paid Parental Leave

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This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, 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. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ .

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The base salary range for this position is

$230,000 — $322,000 USD

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Role signals

Equity: Eligible for equity in the form of restricted stock units.
Benefits: 401(k) match, Health insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, Flexible PTO, Paid parental leave, Mental health support, Family leave

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