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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance

Pay
$266,000 – $372,400 per year
Location
Remote (US)
Job type
Full-time
Level
Executive
Experience
10+ years
Listed
30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • recommendation systems
  • ML systems
  • ranking models

Also useful

  • GenAI

Stated benefits & perks

  • Health
  • 401k match
  • Parental leave
  • Pto

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

Qualifications

  • 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.

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

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Pay Transparency

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base salary range for this position is: $266,000—$372,400 USD

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About Reddit

Reddit is a community of communities. It's built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information.

As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance, you'll drive the development of GenAI-powered recommendations, leveraging Reddit's unique community landscape, rich conversational data, and dynamic engagement patterns. Your deep modeling expertise will directly shape the core architectures behind feed ranking, enabling breakthrough personalization for tens of millions of users.

Read the original posting

From Reddit's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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