Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance

<div class="content-intro"><div class="c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text"> <div class="c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text" data-qa="message-text"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer" data-qa="block-kit-renderer"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first"> <div class="p-rich_text_block"> <div class="p-rich_text_section">Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit <a class="c-link" href="http://www.redditinc.com/" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="http://redditinc.com" data-sk="tooltip_parent">www.redditinc.com</a>.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><p>As a <strong>Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance</strong>, you'll drive the development of GenAI-powered recommendations, leveraging Reddit’s unique community landscape, rich conversational data, and dynamic engagement patterns. Your deep modeling expertise will directly shape the core architectures behind feed ranking, enabling breakthrough personalization for tens of millions of users.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Deliver on technical initiatives that have significant company-wide impact</li> <li>Set technical direction for the broader Relevance and Feeds teams at Reddit, able to identify opportunities and influence strategy across multiple orgs</li> <li>Work with management on goal setting, planning, and de-risking critical projects</li> <li>Mentor and grow Senior and Staff engineers</li> <li>Create a strong healthy engineering culture</li> </ul> <p><strong>Qualifications:</strong></p> <ul> <li>10+ years of industry experience building systems for relevance driven products</li> <li>Subject matter expert in relevance, recommendation, and ML systems; able to solve complex problems in these domains that few others can&nbsp;</li> <li>Deep understanding of how to build sustainable software systems at a large scale engineering organization</li> <li>Experience in influencing organizations on technical direction/best practices</li> <li>Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, business &amp; dat