Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Reddit is a community of communities, known for its open and authentic conversations. The Staff Machine Learning Engineer on Notifications Relevance will serve as a technical leader for one of Reddit's highest-leverage ML systems, focusing on designing and implementing algorithms that enhance user experience through personalized notifications.
Responsibilities
- 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. You will also 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
Skills
- 8+ years of industry experience with deep expertise in large-scale recommendation systems
- 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)
- Notifications experience preferred
- Experience with state of the art model architectures
- Experience building production Agentic AI frameworks
Benefits
- 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
- Equity in the form of restricted stock units
- Commission (depending on the position offered)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) program with employer match
- Generous time off for vacation
- Parental leave
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