Join Reddit as a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to redefine ML engineering with agentic AI in a fully remote role.
Posted by employer 12 hours ago
First seen on Joblaze 3 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 3 hours ago
What you'll build
- Develop advanced ML models
- Use AI-assisted development systems
- Build reliable loops for data and label analysis
- Design evaluation harnesses
- Partner with product and engineering teams
Must have
- 9+ years of experience in ML engineering
- Senior Staff-level technical leadership
- Deep modeling expertise
- Strong coding ability in Python
- Concrete examples of using agentic AI
AI in the day-to-day
Use tools such as Claude, Cursor, and comparable AI-assisted development systems to investigate model behavior and improve code.
Requirements
- Experience
- 9+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Reddit focuses on enhancing machine learning models and workflows, leveraging agentic AI to improve model quality and development speed. Key skills include deep expertise in modeling, proficiency in Python, and experience with AI-assisted tools like Claude and Cursor. This position is suited for seasoned professionals with over nine years of experience in ML engineering and a track record of influencing technical direction across teams. The role emphasizes collaboration with various teams to connect modeling advancements to user and business outcomes.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today on Joblaze — tracked directly from Reddit's career page.
- Reddit has 167 other open roles including Staff Software Engineer - Ingestion Platform , Staff Threat Analyst, Ads Fraud, Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Engineering.
- 6579 active Python roles on Joblaze right now.
- 172 active Claude roles on Joblaze right now.
- 96 active Cursor roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is above the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$188,000).
- Pays more than 96% of the 3251 salaried Python roles we track (median $160,000). See Python salary trends
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Ranking role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $292,500–$409,500 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 9 years of relevant experience for this Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Ranking role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Claude, Cursor, Python.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Reddit targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Ranking role at Reddit.
From the original posting
About the Role:
We are seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to define and accelerate how we leverage agentic AI to transform machine learning models and modeling workflows. This high-impact role focuses directly on modeling leverage—enhancing model quality and velocity—rather than building general infrastructure. As a senior staff engineer, you will operate as a technical leader across the entire modeling loop, utilizing modern AI-assisted development systems (such as Claude, Cursor, and comparable tools) to make model development faster, more rigorous, and significantly more effective across the organization.
Why Join Us? This role offers a domain-flexible platform to redefine how ML engineering is done. If you are passionate about combining deep ML fundamentals with the vanguard of agentic AI to multiply team impact, we’d love to talk to you.
What you’ll do:
- Develop advanced ML models and the agentic workflows that help teams design, train, evaluate, and improve them.
- Use tools such as Claude, Cursor, and comparable AI-assisted development systems to investigate model behavior, generate and test hypotheses, automate repetitive analysis, and improve code and experiments.
- Build reliable loops for data and label analysis, feature and embedding development, architecture comparison, hyperparameter optimization, error analysis, and experiment readouts.
- Design evaluation harnesses that measure both model outcomes and agent/workflow quality, including correctness, reproducibility, regressions, cost, and latency.
- Partner with product, data science, ML infrastructure, and engineering teams to connect modeling improvements to user and business outcomes.
- Set technical direction across teams, mentor engineers, and raise the bar for modeling rigor and AI-assisted engineering.
Required Qualifications:
- 9+ years of experience in ML engineering, applied ML, or a related field, with substantial production impact.
- Senior Staff-level technical leadership and a record of influencing direction across teams.
- Deep modeling expertise and strong fundamentals in data, objectives, architectures, optimization, evaluation, and experimentation.
- Concrete examples of using agentic AI or AI coding tools to produce better ML outcomes—not just faster code generation.
- Ability to design guardrails and evaluations that make autonomous or semi-autonomous workflows trustworthy.
- Strong coding ability in Python and fluency with modern ML frameworks and data tooling.
- Clear, concise communication and a collaborative, low-ego approach to technical leadership.
Perks and Benefits:
- 100% remote opportunity (we have 4 office locations for hybrid/onsite work preference in NY, SF, LA and Chicago)
- Competitive salary and equity options
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision) & workplace perks (home office set up stipend etc)
- Generous 401k matching
- Flexible vacation policy
- Paid parental leave (4+ months)
- Family planning support
- Paid volunteer time off
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