Senior Staff ML Engineer, Search & Recommendation

Reddit

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$266,000–$372,400 / yr
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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 72 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff ML Engineer, Search & Recommendation

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As a Senior Staff ML Engineer on Reddit’s Search Recommendations & Relevance team, you will design and build large-scale systems that power end-to-end search relevance for billions of users. Your day-to-day involves enhancing core search retrieval and ranking, deploying machine learning models, integrating LLMs, and ensuring robust monitoring across the stack. You’ll collaborate with product, infrastructure, and data science teams to solve complex challenges and mentor senior engineers while influencing technical direction at an organizational level. The role requires extensive experience in large-scale systems, proficiency in Python or Golang, and expertise with frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow, along with a deep understanding of lexical and semantic retrieval systems. This unique opportunity leverages Reddit’s vast corpus of human conversation to redefine search experiences globally.

Skills

Python PyTorch TensorFlow LLM Search Engine Recommendation Systems ML Models CI/CD Git Kubernetes Docker PostgreSQL Redis Elasticsearch GraphQL

What you'll do

  • Design and build large-scale systems for end-to-end search relevance at Reddit.
  • Enhance core search retrieval and ranking, implementing new features and scaling indexes.
  • Deploy ML models and integrate LLMs to improve search experience and user interaction.
  • Mentor senior and staff engineers in the team to foster technical growth and expertise.
  • Influence org-wide technical direction and partner with leadership on long-term roadmap.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of industry experience with large-scale search and recommendation systems.
  • Proven ability to design and implement scalable improvements in search relevance.
  • Strong experience building and deploying ML models using PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Experience working with LLMs in production, including evaluation and deployment.
  • In-depth knowledge of lexical and semantic retrieval systems.
  • Proficiency in object-oriented programming languages like Python and Golang.

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