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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
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Listed pay typically runs
$217,000–$303,400
across 77 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Staff ML Engineer, Search & Recommendation, you will join the Search Recommendations & Relevance team to build the next generation of search and AI-native experiences. You will design and build large-scale systems powering end-to-end search relevance, including query understanding, retrieval, ranking, features, measurement, LLM-based answers, and RAG. Your daily work involves enhancing core retrieval and ranking, building and scaling search indexes, developing pipeline components, and deploying ML models while ensuring robust monitoring. You will utilize Python, Golang, PyTorch, or TensorFlow to solve complex technical challenges in lexical and semantic retrieval systems. The role focuses on transforming a massive corpus of human conversation into high-quality search results. Additionally, you will mentor other engineers, influence organizational technical direction, and collaborate across product, infrastructure, and data science teams to shape the long-term roadmap.
Machine Learning
Python
Golang
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Hugging Face
LLM
GenAI
RAG
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Kafka
Ray
Airflow
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