Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Understanding

Job description

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 121 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . We’re looking for a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead Reddit’s next-generation user understanding initiative: building a unified, high-fidelity representation of each user that powers personalization across the platform. This role requires deep expertise in mainstream ML user modeling approaches (e.g., large-scale embeddings, user interest modeling, affinities, behavioral signals) and the ability to reimagine these systems in the GenAI era—leveraging LLMs and foundation models to unlock step-change improvements in fidelity, adaptability, and expressiveness. You will set the technical direction for this space, leading the design and implementation of Reddit’s core user representation layer—spanning embeddings, interest mode...