Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Reddit

Ads Contextual Intelligence

Salary not provided
AWS
Kubernetes
GCP
Python
Kafka
Airflow
Tensorflow
PyTorch
BigQuery
Golang
Senior and Expert level
Remote from Netherlands, UK
Reddit

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

Open for applications

Reddit

Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Open for applications

Salary not provided
AWS
Kubernetes
GCP
Python
Kafka
Airflow
Tensorflow
PyTorch
BigQuery
Golang
Senior and Expert level
Remote from Netherlands, UK

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Company mission

Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.

Role

Who you are

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with the full lifecycle of designing, training, evaluating, testing, and deploying industry-level models
  • Experience building NLP models and integrating them at scale
  • Experience with mainstream DL frameworks: TensorFlow or PyTorch
  • Excitement about working with data and readiness to look behind the metric numbers

Desirable

  • Tech leadership experience: mentoring junior engineers and leading complex projects
  • Experience with our stack (Python, Golang, Airflow, BigQuery, Ray, k8s, kafka, GCP/AWS)
  • Familiarity with the Ads domain and/or Search/Recommender systems is a strong plus
  • Hands-on experience with using/fine-tuning/building LLMs

What the job involves

  • The Ads Contextual Intelligence (ACI) team is responsible for all the “contextualization” projects within the Reddit Monetization charter
  • We are in charge of making sense of all user and advertiser-generated content in an automated fashion at scale, providing the right combination of signals to improve marketplace efficiency and bringing to the surface Business Intelligence insights
  • Our team has the potential to highlight one of Reddit's biggest differentiators: genuinely curated, high-quality, extremely relevant, and daily updated organic content
  • We are a Machine Learning/Data heavy team with a focus in the following areas:
  • Contextual Signals & Relevance - Make sense of organic (posts, comments, subreddits) and promoted (ads, shopping products, their landing pages) content via classification into interpretable tags and embedding into a shared space
  • Safety & Suitability - Build in-house classification capabilities for the detection of sensitive & unsafe content in Reddit content to ensure Brand Safety and suitability of ads for users
  • Knowledge Graph - Semi-automatic curation, expansion, and utilization of Reddit very own Knowledge database. NLP tokenization, NER models, disambiguation systems at KG node level
  • Marketplace Efficiency - Helping Targeting, Retrieval, Ranking, and Marketplace Quality deliver best-in-class performance leveraging our Contextual Signals
  • Business Intelligence Applications - Bring Contextual Signals (Web, APIs, Custom Reporting) to Advertisers and other businesses to empower a new generation of Business Intelligence and help Brands understand Reddit bette
  • As a Senior ML Engineer, you’ll be in charge of the full cycle execution of content understanding projects - from collaborating with cross-functional teams on requirements and design to the implementation to the experimentation
  • Developing new or iterating on existing NLP algorithms and models for advertising use cases, such as NER, text classification, text embedding models, etc
  • Building data processing pipelines & APIs that make the signals and annotations computed with those models available
  • Hands-on help and consulting for the integration of contextual signals into downstream optimization models (Ad Targeting, Ad Ranking, etc.)
  • Ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of the ML systems by writing automated tests, monitoring performance, and implementing best practices for model management
  • Participating in modeling and coding reviews: You will review work by other team members and provide feedback to ensure that it meets the team's standards for quality and performance
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions

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Insights

Top investors

57% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Paid volunteer time off
  • 4+ months paid parental leave
  • Personal and professional development stipend
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Aug 2021

$410m

SERIES F

Feb 2021

$250m

SERIES E

Total funding: $1.2bn

Our take

Reddit is a website that facilitates thousands of message board communities, known as subreddits, with an aim to promote authentic human connection. There are more than 100,000 communities on Reddit, covering everything, from food, entertainment, sports, and books, to more niche topics that cater for very specific audiences.

The simple platform is used by more than 52 million people a day and attracts over 50 billion monthly views. While these are impressive numbers, they do pale in comparison with social media giants Facebook and Twitter, however, Reddit distinguishes itself by providing easy-to-find communities for a truly endless range of topics.

Reddit makes money through advertising as well as offering a premium ad-free membership plan. The company has enjoyed continuous user & revenue growth, acquisitions by Conde Nast in 2006 and Advance in 2011, and plans to launch an IPO bid in 2024.

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