Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Core Experience and Growth

Reddit is a community of communities, and they are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join their Growth team. This role involves building engaging user experiences through the use of machine learning and large language models, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive product features from ideation to production.

Responsibilities:

• Use ML and/or LLMs to personalize first and early user experiences on Reddit
• Build systems for real-time feature fetching and model inference
• Build systems for recurring training of models using modern architectures (deep learning, transformers or other sequential models)
• Work closely with ML Platform teams to provide feedback on and improve Reddit’s ML infrastructure
• Work with Product and Design partners to identify user problems, and design solutions to these problems using ML and/or LLMs
• Contribute meaningfully to our team’s strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning our future. Don’t just come along for the ride
• Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs
• Foster a healthy engineering culture and collaborate with other engineers

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience building deep learning models using mainstream ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch)
• 5+ years of experience training, evaluating, testing, and deploying industry-level models
• 5+ years of experience orchestrating data generation pipelines on large-scale datasets
• Successful track record of applying machine learning techniques to real-world problems
• Fluent in data analysis and SQL
• First-hand familiarity with AB testing using an experimentation platform
• Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience writing production-quality software (preferred Python or Go)
• Experience with content recommendations and personalization is a plus
• Passionate about building delightful products for users
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule
• Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity
• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience