Join Reddit as a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead the development of personalized notification systems for millions of users.
Skills & Technologies
Role intensity
40% coding
AI in the day-to-day
Experience working with LLM in production and utilizing generative AI to augment recommendation systems.
Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Staff Machine Learning Engineer for Notifications Relevance at Reddit, the individual will focus on designing and implementing advanced content discovery algorithms to enhance user engagement through personalized notifications. Key skills include expertise in large-scale recommendation systems, proficiency in ML frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow, and experience with LLMs in production. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with over eight years in the industry, particularly those with a background in notifications and a strong grasp of architectural decisions in ML. The role offers a chance to influence Reddit's growth trajectory by improving user experience ac
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- Listed today on Joblaze — tracked directly from Reddit's career page.
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- Salary band is above the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$190,000).
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Notifications Relevance role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $230,000–$322,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Notifications Relevance role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Golang, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LLM, 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 Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Notifications Relevance role at Reddit.
From the original posting
The Notifications Relevance team at Reddit is building the next generation of notifications focused on delivering the right content to the right user at the right time using the right channel (push notification, email digest and in-app). We are the second largest growth lever at Reddit and a core component to understanding how to delight our current user base and bring new users to discover all that Reddit has to offer.
Reddit is home to some of the most valuable and engaging conversations on the internet. As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer on Notifications Relevance, you'll serve as a technical leader for one of Reddit's highest-leverage ML systems, helping millions of users discover relevant content, communities, and conversations every day. You'll drive the strategy, architecture, and execution of large-scale recommendation systems spanning targeting, budget optimization, retrieval, ranking, measurement, and emerging LLM-powered experiences. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of engagement and retention at Reddit while pushing the boundaries of personalization and machine learning at massive scale.
What You’ll Do
- Contribute to advancing Reddit's growth by designing and implementing content discovery algorithms that prioritize a seamless and highly personalized user experience.
- Deeply understand the Reddit Notifications product and drive the vision for the notifications relevance team.
- Enhance core recommendation capabilities, including candidate retrieval, ranking models, and budgeting optimization, while designing and testing new pipeline components. You will also deploy ML models, integrate LLMs, and ensure robust monitoring and smooth product integration throughout the process.
- Serve as the primary ML domain expert, deploying state-of-the-art models at scale, driving architectural decisions, and ensuring robust monitoring and smooth product integration across the engineering organization.
- Collaborate across disciplines and with ML, Product, Infrastructure, and DS teams at Reddit to find technical solutions to complex challenges
Who You Are
- 8+ years of industry experience with deep expertise in large-scale recommendation systems, notifications experience preferred.
- Proven ability to identify key opportunities, define roadmaps and drive scalable improvement in notifications relevance.
- Strong experience in building and deploying large-scale ML models using frameworks such as PyTorch or Tensorflow.
- Experience working with LLM in production and utilizing generative AI to augment recommendation systems
- Proficiency in object-oriented programming (Python, Golang).
- Big Plus: experience with state of the art model architectures
- Big Plus: experience building production Agentic AI frameworks.
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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