Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Creative Effectiveness

Reddit is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for its Ads Creative Effectiveness team. This role involves building GenAI and predictive products to help advertisers create high-impact campaigns. The engineer will focus on developing best-in-class image, video, and copy generators, leveraging Reddit's best practices, and optimizing for clicks and conversions while ensuring brand safety. Key responsibilities include architecting advanced generative workflows, building end-to-end image/video editing capabilities, fine-tuning LLM/VLM models, and designing production-grade serving stacks.

Must Have

• Architect and implement state-of-the-art pipelines for ad creative generation.
• Build systems for product, font, logo, and brand asset preservation using IP-Adapters and LoRAs.
• Develop image and video editing capabilities (smart-crop, inpaint, outpaint, resize, style-transfer).
• Adapt large vision-language models using ad performance metrics (RLHF/RLPF for Ads).
• Design low-latency inference stacks for diffusion and transformer models.
• Engineer robust filtering and safety systems for content generation.
• Collaborate with Product, Sales, Policy, UX, and Ads ML teams.
• Embed brand-safety filters, copyright checks, and human-in-the-loop escalation paths.
• Hands-on experience with tree models, neural nets, ranking, LLM/VLM fine-tuning & RLHF/RLPF for ads.
• Comfort with uplift metrics, variance, minimum detectable effects, and experimentation setups.
• Understanding of auction dynamics and advertiser pain points.
• Bias to action, comfort with ambiguity, and scrappiness.
• Ability to distill complex ML trade-offs for various stakeholders.
• Prior work on ad creative tooling (headline/image generators, pre-test models, editing flows).

Good to Have

• Experience navigating brand-safety, privacy, or copyright frameworks in generative AI products.

Perks & Benefits

• 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

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Reddit has a flexible first workforce!

Reddit’s newly minted Ads Creative Effectiveness team sits at the heart of our creative strategy, building GenAI and predictive products that help advertisers ship high-impact campaigns. We are searching for a Staff engineer with in-depth GenAI expertise that can help us build the future of generative products for ad creative at Reddit - best-in-class image, video and copy generators that leverage Reddit’s best practices, performance-guided generations that maximize clicks and conversions, and brand safe, product preserving image/video editing pipelines.

What you’ll do:

• Advanced Generative Workflows: Architect and implement state-of-the-art pipelines for ad creative generation. You will move beyond vanilla prompting to build systems capable of product, font, logo and brand asset preservation using techniques like IP-Adapters, and LoRAs.
• End-to-End Image & Video Editing: Build editing capabilities allowing advertisers to smart-crop, inpaint, outpaint, resize, and style-transfer assets while maintaining strict brand guidelines.
• LLM/VLM Fine-Tuning & RAG: Adapt large vision-language models to understand "winning" ad aesthetics. You will build feedback loops where ad performance metrics (CTR, CVR) are used to fine-tune the generation process (RLHF/RLPF for Ads).
• Production-Grade Serving: Design low-latency inference stacks for diffusion and transformer models. You will solve for the trade-off between generation quality, cost-per-impression, and serving speed.
• Safety & Compliance Layer: engineer robust filtering and safety systems. You ensure our models never generate non-compliant, unsafe, or copyright-infringing content.
• Partner Broadly: Collaborate with Product, Sales, Policy, UX, and sibling Ads ML teams to integrate ACE capabilities into the Ad Manager UI and the ad delivery path.
• Guardrails & Safety: Embed brand-safety filters, copyright checks, and human-in-the-loop escalation paths to protect users and advertisers.

What we’re looking for:

• Deep ML Expertise: Hands-on experience with tree models, neural nets, ranking, and especially LLM/VLM fine-tuning & RLHF/RLPF for ads.
• Quant & Experimentation Chops: Comfort with uplift metrics, variance, minimum detectable effects and experimentation setups for generative systems.
• Ads / Marketplace Insight: Understanding auction dynamics and advertiser pain points to create tools that drive revenue and retention.
• Startup Mindset: Bias to action, comfort with ambiguity, and scrappiness: ACE evolved from a startup acquisition and still moves fast.
• Communication Superpowers: Able to distill complex ML trade-offs for executives, product managers, and non-technical stakeholders alike.
• Prior work on ad creative tooling: Headline generators, image generators, pre-test models, editing flows for the advertiser.

Nice-to-have

• Experience navigating brand-safety, privacy, or copyright frameworks in generative AI products.

Benefits:

• 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

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