Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Consumer

About the role

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 www.redditinc.com.

At Reddit, machine learning sits at the heart of how millions of people discover, connect, and engage with the world’s largest collection of human conversations. From powering personalized recommendations and search to optimizing advertising systems and marketplace dynamics, our ML engineers tackle some of the most interesting and impactful problems in large-scale applied machine learning.

We are hiring Machine Learning Engineers across our Consumer Engineering organization, giving you the opportunity to work on a wide range of high-impact problems across the Consumer ecosystem. We are looking for Machine Learning Engineers who are excited to build systems end-to-end, from research and modeling to production deployment, and who want to help shape the future of discovery, relevance, and monetization at Reddit.

If you love working on complex, real-world ML problems at massive scale, this role is for you.

What You’ll Work On

We are looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to help drive the next generation of Reddit’s ML ecosystem across recommendations, search, messaging, and foundational AI systems. You will lead high-impact initiatives from ideation to production, shaping both technical strategy and product direction across multiple ML domains. This is a highly cross-functional role partnering with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to deliver meaningful user and business impact.

This role sits at the intersection of:

- Relevance & recommendation systems (content, search, notifications)

- AI-powered discovery & LLM-driven experiences

- Content and user understanding & large-scale representation learning

- Large-scale ML infrastructure and pipelines

What You’ll Do

- Lead end-to-end ML initiatives from ideation through production and iteration, shaping technical direction and translating product goals into scalable solutions

- Architect, build and deploy large-scale ML systems across recommendation, search, and content/user understanding, including retrieval/ranking models, representation learnings embeddings optimizations, and LLM or GenAI-powered capabilities

- Drive measurable impact on user engagement, discovery, and long-term value

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align product and technical roadmaps and unlock key future ML capabilities

- Stay at the forefront of AI research, evaluating and introducing new AI/ML paradigms to keep Reddit’s ML ecosystem at the cutting edge