Reddit

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Foundational Representations

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23 days ago
Remote, United Kingdom or Remote, NetherlandsStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to machine learning engineers, including design reviews, best-practice development, and quality standards.
  • Develop technical strategy for content-based embeddings and advertising relevance in collaboration with team and organizational leadership.
  • Develop and iterate on embedding models for advertising use cases, including aggregation pipelines, two-tower architectures, and sequence models.
  • Use local and third-party LLMs and VLMs to extract representations, develop evaluation methods, prompt-tune, and fine-tune large models.
  • Build data-processing and inference pipelines for machine learning models.
  • Evaluate features through qualitative and quantitative analysis, internal benchmarks, offline recommender-system metrics, and online experiments.
  • Ensure ML system reliability, scalability, and performance through automated tests, monitoring, and model-management practices.
  • Review modeling and coding work and collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of hands-on experience designing, training, evaluating, testing, and deploying industry-level machine learning models.
  • Demonstrated staff-level technical leadership through mentoring, standards-setting, complex cross-functional project leadership, and execution without direct people-management authority.
  • Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to varied audiences.
  • Strong experience with content-rich NLP and computer vision problems at scale and using embeddings to solve them.
  • A data-driven approach to machine learning system development and analysis.
  • Familiarity with the advertising domain and/or search or recommender systems.
  • Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Preferred: experience with Python, PyTorch, Airflow, BigQuery, Ray, Kubernetes, Kafka, and GCP.
  • Preferred: experience mentoring junior engineers, leading complex projects, and using, fine-tuning, or building LLMs.

Benefits

  • Global benefits programs covering workspace, professional development, and caregiving support.
  • Family planning support, gender-affirming care, and mental health and coaching benefits.
  • Private pension plan with employer matching and a 100% employer-sponsored group medical plan.
  • Income replacement programs, flexible vacation, paid volunteer time off, and generous paid parental leave.
  • Flexible first workforce arrangement with remote work available from anywhere in the UK or the Netherlands.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache KafkaGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPythonPyTorchTensorFlow

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About Reddit

5,001-10,000 employees

Reddit builds a social news and discussion platform organized into user-created forums (“subreddits”) for consumers, creators, and communities. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for brands and self-serve advertisers, plus a Premium subscription; developers can access data via its API. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Reddit became a public company on the NYSE in 2024 and hosts over 100,000 active communities.

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