Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Notifications Relevance

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Research Development • $216,700 PA - $303,400 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Reddit is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join their Notifications Relevance team. This role focuses on delivering the right content to users at the right time through various notification channels. The engineer will tackle large-scale ML challenges, build and productionize retrieval, ranking, and budgeting models, and work across the full stack from deep learning models to distributed systems. Responsibilities include researching, prototyping, and productionizing models, designing and building large-scale systems, driving architecture decisions, leading experimentation, and mentoring engineers. The goal is to connect users with relevant content to drive engagement and retention.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of industry experience in large-scale ML systems.
  • Experience building, deploying, and scaling recommender systems.
  • Deep understanding of recommendation pipeline trade-offs.
  • Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch/TensorFlow).
  • Experience with distributed training/inference (Ray, PyTorch Distributed).
Good to have:
  • Experience with sequential modeling and real-time systems.
  • Familiarity with reinforcement learning or multi-objective optimization.
  • Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow, Kubeflow).
  • Experience with large-scale data processing (BigQuery, Dataflow).
  • MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field.
Perks:
  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
  • Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k Match
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation
  • Reddit Global Days off
  • Generous paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Volunteer time off

Job Details

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

We’re looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the Notifications Relevance team. Our goal: deliver the right content to the right user at the right time through push, email, and in-app notifications. This is a high-impact team driving DAU growth and long-term user retention by connecting users to what matters most to them.

Why this role?

  • Tackle unique ML challenges at Reddit scale: recommend from hundreds of millions of posts, optimize across channels, and balance relevance, timeliness, and user fatigue.
  • Build and productionize large-scale retrieval, ranking, and budgeting models that personalize notifications for tens of millions of users.
  • Work across the full stack - from designing deep learning models to scaling distributed training and inference pipelines.
    Collaborate closely with product, data science, and infra teams to drive measurable engagement outcomes (DAU, CTR, retention).

What you’ll do:

  • Research, prototype, and productionize retrieval and ranking models that power personalized notifications at scale.
  • Design and build large-scale systems - from model pipelines to real-time serving - that handle Reddit’s massive user base and content volume.
  • Drive architecture decisions and roadmap priorities for the team’s ML systems.
  • Lead experimentation efforts, measure impact rigorously (offline + A/B), and iterate quickly.
  • Mentor other engineers and contribute to building a high-quality, collaborative ML culture.

Role Requirements: 

  • 5+ years of industry experience (post-internship) working on large-scale machine learning systems.
  • Hands-on experience building, deploying, and scaling recommender systems (retrieval + ranking) in production.
  • Deep understanding of system-level trade-offs in large-scale recommendation pipelines (e.g. latency, throughput, storage of embeddings, feature freshness).
  • Proficiency in Python; familiarity with frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Experience with distributed training and inference using tools like Ray, PyTorch Distributed, or similar.

Bonus points:

  • Experience developing sequential modeling and real-time systems.
  • Familiarity with reinforcement learning or multi-objective optimization in recommendation systems.
  • Experience with orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow, Kubeflow), large-scale data processing (e.g., BigQuery, Dataflow).
  • MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.

Location: 

Reddit has a flexible first workforce. This role is 100% remote, and open only to candidates currently located within the United States. 

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
  • 401k Match
  • Family Planning Support
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
  • Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
  • Generous paid Parental Leave  
  • Paid Volunteer time off

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:

$216,700 - 303,400 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

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