Quick summary
- Work type
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Salary
- $230,000–$322,000 / yr
- Posted
- 171 days ago
- Freshness
- Confirmed live yesterday
Market check
Salary context
How this pay compares to similar roles
This role pays more than 86% of similar roles. Most pay $202,800–$259,212 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $276k versus about $231k 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 · Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Consumer
As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer within the Consumer Engineering organization, you will drive the next generation of the machine learning ecosystem across recommendations, search, messaging, and foundational AI systems. You will lead end-to-end initiatives from ideation to production, architecting large-scale systems for retrieval, ranking, and representation learning while integrating LLM and GenAI capabilities. The role requires expertise in both classical and modern deep learning methods like Transformers and GNNs. You will develop production-quality code using Python, Golang, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Hugging Face. Additionally, you may utilize Spark, Kafka, Ray, Airflow, BigQuery, and Redis to manage data pipelines and real-time systems. Your work focuses on solving complex problems in content understanding, user engagement, and discovery within a large-scale environment to improve relevance and monetization across the platform's diverse community features.
What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $229700 from 72 postings across 27 companies.
Skills
What you'll do
- Lead end-to-end ML initiatives from initial ideation through production deployment and iteration.
- Architect and deploy large-scale systems for recommendation, search, and content understanding.
- Develop and optimize retrieval/ranking models, representation learning embeddings, and LLM-powered capabilities.
- Translate product goals into scalable technical solutions while shaping the long-term ML roadmap.
- Evaluate and integrate new AI research to keep the platform's machine learning ecosystem at the cutting edge.
- Establish best practices and ethical guidelines for responsible LLM development and deployment.
- Mentor and guide mid-level and senior engineers to foster a culture of technical excellence.
- Present technical findings to leadership and drive high-level decision-making regarding ML strategy.
What we're looking for
- 7+ years of experience building, deploying, and operating machine learning systems in production.
- Deep understanding of machine learning methods including classical approaches and modern deep learning like Transformers and GNNs.
- Expertise in developing and productionizing models using TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Hugging Face Transformers.
- Experience writing production-quality code in Python and Golang with a focus on testing, evaluation, and monitoring.
- Experience designing and scaling ML systems including data pipelines, feature engineering, and model training/serving.
- Excellent communication skills to translate product needs into scalable solutions and collaborate across cross-functional teams.
- A track record of driving measurable impact through applied machine learning in real-world products.
- An advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field is preferred.
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