Quick summary
- Work type
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Salary
- $230,000–$322,000 / yr
- Posted
- 82 days ago
- Freshness
- Confirmed live 2 days ago
Market check
Salary context
How this pay compares to similar roles
This role pays more than 80% of similar roles. Most pay $195,150–$270,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $276k versus about $233k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Reddit
Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion platform where users share content, vote on posts, and engage in community conversations across thousands of interest-based forums called subreddits.
Reddit currently has 77 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $217,000–$303,400 across 77 roles with salary data.
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At a glance
TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Ads ML Efficiency
As the Engineering Manager, Ads ML Efficiency, you will lead a team of engineers focused on making model training and inference faster, cheaper, safer, and more scalable. You will manage the roadmap for training optimization, inference optimization, launch-readiness tooling, and reusable efficiency primitives while hiring and mentoring a high-performing team. Your daily work involves building systems for profiling, benchmarking, load testing, observability, cost analysis, and debugging to reduce training time, online latency, and serving costs. You will collaborate with ranking, platform, and serving teams to resolve bottlenecks in the production path. The role requires deep experience in ML engineering, distributed systems, and GPU utilization. Preferred skills include PyTorch, distributed training frameworks, and kernel optimization. This role specifically addresses technical challenges within ads ranking, recommender systems, and marketplace machine learning environments.
What does a Engineering Manager earn in Remote?
Median $235250 from 43 postings across 20 companies.
Skills
What you'll do
- Hire, mentor, and retain a high-performing team of ML and systems-oriented engineers.
- Define the technical roadmap for training optimization, inference optimization, and launch-readiness tooling.
- Drive measurable reductions in model training time, online latency, serving costs, and infrastructure risks.
- Guide the development of profiling, benchmarking, load testing, and cost analysis systems.
- Partner with ranking and platform teams to identify bottlenecks and accelerate high-priority launches.
- Balance immediate optimization tasks with long-term goals for automation and platformization.
- Establish engineering rigor regarding measurement, performance debugging, and technical decision-making.
What we're looking for
- Experience in deep machine learning engineering including training, serving, debugging, and optimization.
- Proven experience in hands-on optimization of training loops, serving systems, profiling workflows, and GPU utilization.
- Demonstrated ability to build, lead, coach, and manage teams while making prioritization trade-offs under ambiguity.
- Proficiency in distributed systems and reasoning about production-scale ML system tradeoffs regarding reliability, speed, cost, and scale.
- Strong communication skills to explain technical trade-offs to engineers, product managers, and senior stakeholders.
- Experience in ads ranking, recommender systems, marketplace ML, or adjacent production ML domains is strongly preferred.
- Preferred experience with PyTorch, distributed training frameworks, or kernel/performance optimization.
- Preferred experience with GPU training and serving migrations or building efficiency benchmarking frameworks.
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