Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests and trust, and is home to millions of active users. They are seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead their Relevance team and enhance their search systems, aiming to provide the best search experiences on the internet. The role involves designing and building large-scale systems that leverage AI to improve search relevance and user experience.

Responsibilities:

• Delivers on technical initiatives that have significant company-wide impact
• Sets technical direction for the broader ML and Search teams at Reddit, able to identify opportunities and influence strategy for all of Reddit
• Mentors and grow Staff and Senior Staff engineers
• Create a strong healthy engineering culture

Requirements:

• 15+ years of industry experience building systems for relevance driven products
• Subject matter expert in Search, recommendation, and ML systems, able to solve complex problems in these domains that few others can
• Deep understanding of how to build a sustainable software systems at a large scale engineering organization
• Experience in influencing larger (100+ engineers) 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