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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Understanding
Reddit, Inc.. Define a unified user understanding framework and long-term technical strategy .
Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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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
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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