Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance

Remote - United States

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Pay: USD 266,000–372,400/year · BaseAnnual period assumed — pay source
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What you’ll work on

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Set technical direction across the Relevance and Feeds teams
Deliver technical initiatives with significant company-wide impact
Work with management on goal setting, planning, and de-risking critical projects
Mentor and grow Senior and Staff engineers
Build a strong, healthy engineering culture

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Set technical direction for the broader Relevance and Feeds teams at Reddit

Deliver on technical initiatives that have significant company-wide impact

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

What you’ll bring

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Core experience

10+ years of industry experience building systems for relevance driven products
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.

Qualification wording

10+ years of industry experience building systems for relevance driven products

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.

Benefits in the posting

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Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k with Employer Match
Family Planning Support
Gender-Affirming Care
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
Generous Paid Parental Leave
Pay Transparency:
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 learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
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.
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$266K–$372K against $166K–$240K, the middle half of what similar US postings state.

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At Reddit, jobs usually come down by about day 48.

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About Reddit

People: About 2,555 in 2025, up 14% from the year before.Annual report (SEC Form 10-K)
Company: Listed as RDDT.

Demand for ML Engineer roles

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About the role

We file this job under ML Engineer, by the work the posting describes.

ML engineers put machine learning models into products. They write the code that trains, ships, serves and monitors models so a recommendation or prediction works for real users.

Postings ask for strong Python and software engineering, a framework such as PyTorch, cloud services, and more and more often experience with large language models.

A data scientist often works out which model to build; an ML engineer makes it run reliably in production.

US government figures for computer and information research scientists

Median yearly pay, May 2025: $140,300
Expected change, 2025 to 2035: 21.8% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs

The government has no code for ML engineers, so these figures are for the closest group, computer and information research scientists.

Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035). Occupation code 15-1221.

Job description

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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. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

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.

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 learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

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

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

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