Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Reddit
Ads Targeting
$230-322k
+ RSUs
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$230-322k
+ RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Tech lead experience in a product ML team driving the research and technical direction to improve business outcomes using applied ML
- Experience with ads retrieval modeling, ranking or recommendation systems
- Experience with deep learning models for retrieval (two tower, GNNs, transformers, LLMs)
- 5+ years of end-to-end experience of training, evaluating, testing, and deploying machine learning models
- 2+ years of experience building machine learning models with Tensorflow/Pytorch
- Experience with large scale data processing & pipeline orchestration tools like Spark, Dataflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, BigQuery
- Experience working with nearest-neighbor search systems is a big plus
- Experience working with cross functional stakeholders across research, product & infrastructure to productize ML research
- Experience with deep learning, representation learning or transfer learning is preferred
- Tech lead experience in a product team is strongly preferred
What the job involves
- Ads Targeting ML engineers are focused on designing and implementing ML systems and solutions for improving targeting products
- The team’s projects involve building large-scale offline & online retrieval systems across several dimensions to improve contextual & behavioral targeting for targeting products
- As a staff machine learning engineer in the ads targeting quality team, you will own and execute our mission to automate targeting and deliver the most relevant audiences to advertisers under the right context with ML-driven solutions
- Own end-to-end design and execution of ML-based targeting products like auto targeting, user lookalikes etc
- Drive research direction and technical roadmap for complex projects, lead day to day project execution, and contribute meaningfully to team vision and strategy
- Be a thought leader for the team and collaborate closely with product managers and cross-functional partners to develop and prioritize the roadmap based on data analysis, industry research and product research
- Research, implement, test, and launch new model architectures for retrieval using deep learning (GNNs, transformers, two tower models, LLMs) with a focus on improving advertiser outcomes
- Provide mentorship to junior MLEs
- Own offline & online experimentation of ML models for improving targeting products
- Work on large scale data systems, and product integration
- Collaborate closely with multiple stakeholders cross product, engineering, research and marketing
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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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time off
- 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal and professional development stipend
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Make something people love
- Evolve
- Work hard
- Default open
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Steve Huffman
(CEO)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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