What's the salary range?

Reddit lists $266,000–$372,400 for this role.

How much experience is required?

At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance role.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: GenAI, Machine Learning, Recommendation Systems, relevance.

What seniority level is this role?

Reddit targets staff-level candidates for this position.

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance at Reddit

Joblaze summary

In the role of Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer for Feed Relevance at Reddit, the individual will focus on developing advanced GenAI-powered recommendation systems that enhance user engagement across the platform. This position requires extensive experience in machine learning and relevance-driven products, along with a strong ability to influence technical direction within cross-functional teams. Ideal candidates will have a deep understanding of scalable software systems and a commitment to user experience. The role also involves mentoring other engineers and fostering a collaborative engineering culture.

Joblaze insights

Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze August 12, 2026. Last confirmed on Reddit's careers page October 8, 2026.
Salary band is above the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$190,000).
Starts above 79% of 33 comparable staff ai/ml roles in United States that list Machine Learning we track (median $222,716 across 14 companies). See Machine Learning salary trends
Machine Learning appears in 17% of 270 comparable staff ai/ml roles in United States; Recommendation Systems appears in 0.4% of 270 comparable staff ai/ml roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance role remote?: Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
What's the salary range?: Reddit lists $266,000–$372,400 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance role.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: GenAI, Machine Learning, Recommendation Systems, relevance.
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, Feed Relevance role at Reddit.

From the original posting

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.

As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance, you'll drive the development of GenAI-powered recommendations, leveraging Reddit’s unique community landscape, rich conversational data, and dynamic engagement patterns. Your deep modeling expertise will directly shape the core architectures behind feed ranking, enabling breakthrough personalization for tens of millions of users.

Responsibilities:

Deliver on technical initiatives that have significant company-wide impact
Set technical direction for the broader Relevance and Feeds teams at Reddit, able to identify opportunities and influence strategy across multiple orgs
Work with management on goal setting, planning, and de-risking critical projects
Mentor and grow Senior and Staff engineers
Create a strong healthy engineering culture

Qualifications:

10+ years of industry experience building systems for relevance driven products
Subject matter expert in relevance, recommendation, and ML systems; able to solve complex problems in these domains that few others can
Deep understanding of how to build sustainable software systems at a large scale engineering organization
Experience in influencing organizations on technical direction/best practices
Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, business & data teams to deliver great experiences.
Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, reliability and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how people & machines interact with software at scale.
High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org.

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Pay Transparency:

$266,000—$372,400 USD

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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance

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