Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance

Reddit, Inc. is a community-driven platform centered on shared interests, conversations, and user-generated content. The Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance will lead the development of GenAI-powered recommendations and feed-ranking architectures, driving personalization for millions of users while setting technical direction across relevance and feeds teams.

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

Requirements:

• 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