Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance
Quick summary
- Work type
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Salary
- $266,000–$372,400 / yr
- Posted
- 31 days ago
- Freshness
- Confirmed live yesterday
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Salary context
How this pay compares to similar roles
This role pays more than 96% of similar roles. Most pay $207,168–$259,212 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $319k 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.
Most-posted roles
- Software Engineer 19
- Data Scientist 8
- Machine Learning Engineer 5
- Frontend Engineer 4
- Machine Learning Systems Engineer 4
At a glance
TL;DR · Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance
As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance, you will join the Relevance and Feeds teams to drive the development of GenAI-powered recommendations. You will be responsible for shaping core architectures behind feed ranking and personalization by leveraging unique community landscapes, rich conversational data, and dynamic engagement patterns. Your role involves setting technical direction across multiple organizations, mentoring senior and staff engineers, and leading high-impact initiatives while collaborating with cross-functional teams like design, product, business, and data. You must be a subject matter expert in relevance, recommendation, and machine learning systems to solve complex problems at scale. The work focuses on the technical challenge of building sustainable software systems that improve user experience through advanced modeling and sophisticated ranking algorithms within a large-scale engineering environment to deliver high-quality, personalized content for millions of users.
What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $229700 from 72 postings across 27 companies.
What you'll do
- Develop GenAI-powered recommendation systems using Reddit's conversational data and engagement patterns.
- Design and build core architectures for feed ranking and personalized content delivery.
- Set technical direction and influence strategy across multiple engineering organizations.
- Identify high-impact opportunities and de-risk critical projects through strategic planning.
- Mentor and grow the careers of Senior and Staff engineers.
- Build and maintain a healthy engineering culture within the organization.
- Solve complex problems in relevance, recommendation, and large-scale machine learning systems.
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of industry experience building systems for relevance driven products.
- Subject matter expertise in relevance, recommendation, and ML systems.
- Deep understanding of building sustainable software systems at a large scale engineering organization.
- Experience influencing organizations on technical direction and best practices.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams including design, product, business, and data teams.
- Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, reliability, and quality.
- High empathy and excellent communication skills to find compromise across the engineering organization.
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