Role at a glance
- Job function
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AI & Data Machine Learning Engineering
- Salary
- $230K – $322K/yr
- Location
- Remote - United States
- Work arrangement
- Remote
- Experience
- 6+ years of experience building and scaling machine learning models
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Role Summary
Lead the Core Ads Ranking machine learning team, setting technical vision and strategy for foundational modeling and user understanding while collaborating with cross-functional partners. The role emphasizes executing the model development lifecycle and mentoring a high-performing ML team.
What You'll Do
- Define and execute a roadmap for foundational model and user understanding, balancing high-ambiguity long-term investments with...
- Partner with vertical customer teams, horizontal signal teams, and infrastructure/platform teams to align on direction, strategy,...
- Oversee the model development lifecycle from ideation to deployment, ensuring high standards of ML performance, reliability, and robustness.
- Recruit, mentor, and retain top ML talent while fostering a culture of growth, collaboration, and technical excellence.
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Machine learning leader with 6+ years building and scaling ML models and 1+ years of management experience leading ML-focused teams.
Required
- 1+ years of management experience leading ML-focused teams
- 6+ years of experience building and scaling machine learning models, and working with state of the art machine learning models
- 4+ years of hands-on experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch
- End-to-End ML Lifecycle Experience: Proven ability in training, evaluating, and deploying large-scale models
- Experience working with foundational models, user or content understanding
Preferred
- Experience with Ads is a plus
Original job description
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Original job description
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The Team
The Core Ads Ranking team advances user representation and graph learning, improves sequence modeling across ads verticals, and builds robust pipelines and state‑of‑the‑art architectures for foundational models. The team also leads core initiatives in knowledge distillation, model calibration, and heuristic improvement.
This role offers a unique opportunity to shape and scale Reddit’s foundational modeling and deep user‑understanding roadmap, while multiplying impact through close collaboration with downstream teams including Retrieval, Shopping, Click Prediction, Video View‑Through Prediction, Conversion Prediction, and App Ads Modeling. This position is ideal for a leader with deep machine learning expertise, strong strategic vision, and a collaborative mindset capable of engaging effectively with both technical and cross‑functional partners.
Responsibilities:
- Set Technical Vision and Strategy: Define and execute a roadmap for foundational model and user understanding, balancing high-ambuiguity long-term investments with measurable milestones.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with vertical customer teams, horizontal signal teams, and infrastructure/platform teams to align on direction, strategy, priorities, and constraints.
- Drive Technical Execution: Oversee the model development lifecycle from ideation to deployment, ensuring high standards of ML performance, reliability, and robustness.
- Lead and Mentor a High-Performing Team: Recruit, mentor, and retain top ML talent while fostering a culture of growth, collaboration, and technical excellence.
Candidate Profile:
- 1+ years of management experience leading ML-focused teams
- 6+ years of experience building and scaling machine learning models, and working with state of the art machine learning models
- 4+ years of hands-on experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch
- End-to-End ML Lifecycle Experience: Proven ability in training, evaluating, and deploying large-scale models
- Experience working with foundational models, user or content understanding.
- Experience with Ads is a plus.
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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