Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Notifications

at Reddit

📍 United States

USD 266,000-372,400 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

Tech Stack
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1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;

3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;

7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;

10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.

AI @ 4 Agentic AI @ 4 Algorithms @ 4 GenAI Generative AI @ 4 Go LLM @ 4 Machine Learning PyTorch @ 7 Python @ 6 TensorFlow @ 7

Contribute to advancing Reddit's growth by designing and implementing content discovery algorithms that prioritize a seamless and highly personalized user experience.
Deeply understand the Reddit Notifications product and drive the vision for the notifications relevance team.
Enhance core recommendation capabilities, including candidate retrieval, ranking models, and budgeting optimization, while designing and testing new pipeline components. Deploy ML models, integrate LLMs, and ensure robust monitoring and smooth product integration throughout the process.
Serve as the primary ML domain expert, deploying state-of-the-art models at scale, driving architectural decisions, and ensuring robust monitoring and smooth product integration across the engineering organization.
Collaborate across disciplines and with ML, Product, Infrastructure, and DS teams at Reddit to find technical solutions to complex challenges.
Mentor and guide senior and staff engineers in the team.
Partner closely with senior leadership and cross-functional org leads to shape long-term roadmaps, balancing immediate operational wins with strategic technical objectives.

10+ years of industry experience with deep expertise in large-scale recommendation systems; notifications experience preferred.
Proven ability to identify key opportunities, define roadmaps and drive scalable improvement in notifications relevance.
Strong experience in building and deploying large-scale ML models using frameworks such as PyTorch or Tensorflow.
Experience working with LLM in production and utilizing generative AI to augment recommendation systems.
Proficiency in object-oriented programming (Python, Golang).
Big Plus: experience with state of the art model architectures.
Big Plus: experience building production Agentic AI frameworks.

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