Apply

Ready to go for it?

AI Apply speeds things up—apply directly if you prefer.

FREE ACCESS
5,000–10,000 jobs/day
Scoutfield Logo

See all jobs on Scoutfield

Search thousands of fresh jobs every day.

Discover
  • Fresh listings
  • Fast filters
  • No subscription required
Create a free account and start exploring right away.
Reddit, Inc.

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Understanding

Reddit, Inc.

. Define a unified user understanding framework and long-term technical strategy .

Posted 9/30/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $266,000 - $372,400 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

Role fit
Core Competencies

Use this summary to align your resume positioning with the role.

Demonstrates expertise in building and scaling production-grade ML systems, particularly in user modeling and large-scale representation learning. Proficient in leveraging LLMs and GenAI for dynamic user profiles and intent inference while ensuring high availability and low-latency serving.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Production-Grade ML SystemsRepresentation LearningLarge-Scale User ModelingLLMs and Foundation ModelsMentoring and Design Reviews

ATS Keywords

Tailor your resume
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills
User ModelingRepresentation LearningBehavioral ModelingUser ClusteringMLOps IntegrationFeature PipelinesAPIs DesignExperimentationData EvaluationHigh-Impact Initiatives
Soft Skills
MentoringCollaborationSystems Thinking
Tools & Technologies
GenAILLMsStorage SolutionsRetrieval SystemsServing Components
Industry Keywords
User Understanding FrameworkHigh AvailabilityLow-Latency ServingTrade-Off Navigation

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Define a unified user understanding framework and long-term technical strategy
  • Lead advanced user models and large-scale representation learning across Feeds, Notifications, Search, and Ads
  • Leverage LLMs and GenAI for dynamic user profiles, intent inference, and semantic reasoning
  • Design storage, retrieval, feature pipelines, APIs, and large-scale learning and serving components
  • Ensure low-latency serving, high availability, and MLOps integration
  • Drive experimentation and adoption with Feeds, Notifications, Search, Ads, product, infrastructure, and downstream ML teams
  • Mentor senior and staff engineers, lead design reviews, and establish engineering best practices

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • At least 10 years experience building and scaling production-grade ML systems, particularly in user modeling, large-scale representation learning, or recommender systems
  • Track record of driving ambiguous, high-impact initiatives from concept to production
  • Strong fundamentals in representation learning, behavioral modeling, and user clustering
  • Experience or strong intuition applying LLMs or foundation models
  • Systems thinking across data, training, evaluation, serving, and adoption
  • Ability to partner with product, infrastructure, and ML teams
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers, leading design reviews, and establishing best practices
  • Ability to navigate trade-offs across quality, latency, cost, and safety

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 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
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
  • Generous Paid Parental Leave
  • Equity in the form of restricted stock units
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • AI interview recording opt-out opportunity