Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Location:
This role is completely remote-friendly. If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations, our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like.

Team Description:
The Search and Answers team at Reddit focuses on delivering the most relevant results and recommendations when users search for anything on Reddit. We provide this content to users in the form of Reddit Search and through Reddit Answers, our new gen AI product.

We are looking for a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead our Relevance team and take our search systems to the next level. Our goal is to make Reddit Search the best place on the internet to find answers, opinions, and conversations. Redditors produce the most amazing content about every niche topic in the world – this underleveraged data coupled with modern advances in AI systems is presenting a unique opportunity to quickly build a new kind of search engine. You will design and build a large-scale system that can power highly relevant search experiences. You will work across multiple areas of the stack, incl. query understanding, retrieval, ranking, features, measurement, LLM-based answers etc, partnering deeply with PMs, org leads, and other XFN to deliver reliable, high quality systems that can help Reddit Search scale to a billions users.

Responsibilities:

• Delivers on technical initiatives that have significant company-wide impact
• Sets technical direction for the broader ML and Search teams at Reddit, able to identify opportunities and influence strategy for all of Reddit
• Mentors and grow Staff and Senior Staff engineers
• Create a strong healthy engineering culture

Qualifications:

• 15+ years of industry experience building systems for relevance driven products
• Subject matter expert in Search, recommendation, and ML systems, able to solve complex problems in these domains that few others can 
• Deep understanding of how to build a sustainable software systems at a large scale engineering organization
• Experience in influencing larger (100+ engineers) organizations on technical direction/best practices
• Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, business & data teams to deliver great experiences.
• Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, reliability and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how people & machines interact with software at scale.
• High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support