Engineering Manager, Machine Learning (Safety)

<div class="content-intro"><p>Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: <strong>play video games.</strong> Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.</p></div><p>Discord's Safety ML team builds the machine learning systems that protect 200M+ users. The team's mission is to make Discord a place where people can build genuine friendships without exposure to harm, at a scale where manual review alone can never keep up.</p> <p>We're looking for a highly technical, hands-on, and mission-driven Engineering Manager to lead our Safety ML team. As the manager responsible for Safety ML, you will own the detection systems that sit between attackers and our users; real-time and batch models for content understanding, account integrity, and platform abuse.</p> <p><strong>What You'll Be Doing</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build and lead an exceptional team of highly-engaged ML engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact.</li> <li>Drive the technical vision and roadmap for Safety ML by collaborating with your team and partners across Trust &amp; Safety, Product, Policy, Legal, and Data Science.</li> <li>Own the end-to-end lifecycle of production safety models: defining new capabilities, measuring performance, and monitoring the operational health of systems that make millions of enforcement decisions per day.</li> <li>Manage processes and leverage your technical expertise to continually raise the bar and ensure your team delivers extraordinary results.</li> <li>Partner with Trust &amp; Safety on label quality, golden sets, and automating manual investigations.</li> <li>Work with other Engineering Managers to continuously improve the Engineering organization and uphold our <a href="https://blog.discordapp.com/the-four-values-of-working-at-discord-90d5b5102cbc">workplace philosophy</a>.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you should have</strong></p> <ul> <li>You have 5+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist, or Applied Scientist.</li> <li>You have 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and successfully managed a team of 5+ engineers.</li> <li>You have hands-on depth in at least one of: abuse/fraud detection, content classification, behavioral modeling, graph-based modeling, or LLM-based classification systems.</li> <li>You have strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally.</li> <li>You thrive in ambiguous environ