Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance
Reddit is hiring a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $266k-$372k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Reddit.
Level's read on this job
- Builds AI ●●●● is how Level rates this machine learning engineer role: the job is building AI systems.
- Pay on this posting starts 33% higher than the typical machine learning engineer posting on Level.
- This is listed as a remote role.
- The posting mentions GenAI, ML Systems and machine learning among its tools and skills.
- Reddit has 159 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Drive the development of GenAI-powered recommendations and core architectures behind feed ranking as a Senior Staff ML Engineer.
As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance, you'll drive the development of GenAI-powered recommendations, leveraging Reddit’s unique community landscape, rich conversational data, and dynamic engagement patterns. Your deep modeling expertise will directly shape the core architectures behind feed ranking, enabling breakthrough personalization for tens of millions of users.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver on technical initiatives that have significant company-wide impact
- Set technical direction for the broader Relevance and Feeds teams at Reddit, able to identify opportunities and influence strategy across multiple orgs
- Work with management on goal setting, planning, and de-risking critical projects
- Mentor and grow Senior and Staff engineers
- Create a strong healthy engineering culture
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of industry experience building systems for relevance driven products
- Subject matter expert in relevance, recommendation, and ML systems; able to solve complex problems in these domains that few others can
- Deep understanding of how to build sustainable software systems at a large scale engineering organization
- Experience in influencing 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.
Benefits:
- 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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Pay Transparency:
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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How we rate this
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance at Reddit rates 90 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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Pay
- This job starts at
- $266k
- Typical machine learning engineer job
- $199k
This posting starts 33% above the typical machine learning engineer job. See machine learning engineer jobs
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- Tell me about a project where machine learning was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where recommendation systems was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where relevance was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where mentoring was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Machine learning, Recommendation Systems, Relevance, Distributed Systems, and Mentoring. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.
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