Reddit is a community-driven platform that fosters open conversations and engagement among its users. The Developer Platform team is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to lead projects that enhance user experiences through applied machine learning models, collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring junior members. This role involves owning projects from ideation to production, ensuring high quality and performance in a collaborative environment.
Responsibilities:
- Lead projects from concept, design, implementation, to rollout, ensuring the highest quality and performance
- Identify opportunities to enhance ranking capabilities by diving deep into our platform and understanding the needs of our customers
- Design and develop applied machine learning models for modeled personalization, game taxonomy, and more, from ideation to production deployment
- Collaborate with data scientists, product managers and backend software engineers
- Mentor junior team members, share knowledge, and contribute to the technical growth of the team. Provide guidance on machine learning best practices and methodologies
- Conduct A/B tests and experiments to iterate and fine-tune algorithms and models
- Stay updated on state-of-the-art algorithmic techniques and recognize promising innovations, adapting them to Reddit's unique platform and community
- Design, implement, and maintain reliable, high-performance distributed systems
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in a relevant industry or academic background, preferably in a quantitative/modeling or highly scalable computing environment
- Prior experience with personalized feed ranking
- Proven track record of delivering complex machine learning projects from conception to deployment, preferably in real-world applications
- Ability to lead and mentor machine learning engineers or data scientists
- Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to innovate and stay updated with the latest advancements in machine learning and AI
- Experience of orchestrating complicated data pipelines and system engineering on large-scale dataset
- Proficiency with programming languages and statistical analysis
- Prior experience with Sequence Modeling, Reinforcement Learning, or Transformer Architecture is a big plus
- Experience in Bayesian methodology and experimentation is a plus