This is an elite leadership role for a seasoned technical expert with 15+ years of experience in high-scale ML and Search relevance. Reddit is looking for a vis
Work type: remote
Location: Remote - United States
Salary: $266,000 – $372,400/yr
Type: Full-time
This is an elite leadership role for a seasoned technical expert with 15+ years of experience in high-scale ML and Search relevance. Reddit is looking for a visionary "engineer's engineer" who can design query understanding and ranking systems for over 100 million daily users. You should be a subject matter expert in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI, as you will be shaping "Reddit Answers," their new GenAI product. The compensation is highly competitive, with a base salary reaching up to $372,400 plus equity. The role offers maximum geographic flexibility as a fully remote position within the U.S. It’s an opportunity to exercise immense influence, as you will be setting the technical roadmap for an organization of over 100 engineers and mentoring other high-level Staff-tier talent. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have 15+ years of experience building massive-scale relevance or recommendation engines (e.g., at Google, Meta, or Netflix). * Can transition seamlessly between deep technical architecture and high-level product strategy. * Are passionate about modernizing search through RAG and LLM-based solutions. * Thrive in a mentorship-heavy role specifically focused on growing other senior technical leaders.
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](http://www.redditinc.com/).
Location:This role is[ completely remote-friendly](https://redditblog.com/2020/10/27/evolving-reddits-workforce/). If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations, our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like.
Team Description:The Search and Answers team at Reddit focuses on delivering the most relevant results and recommendations when users search for anything on Reddit. We provide this content to users in the form of Reddit Search and through [Reddit Answers](https://redditinc.com/blog/introducing-reddit-answers), our new gen AI product.
We are looking for a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead our Relevance team and take our search systems to the next level. Our goal is to make Reddit Search the best place on the internet to find answers, opinions, and conversations. Redditors produce the most amazing content about every niche topic in the world – this underleveraged data coupled with modern advances in AI systems is presenting a unique opportunity to quickly build a new kind of search engine. You will design and build a large-scale system that can power highly relevant search experiences. You will work across multiple areas of the stack, incl. query understanding, retrieval, ranking, features, measurement, LLM-based answers etc, partnering deeply with PMs, org leads, and other XFN to deliver reliable, high quality systems that can help Reddit Search scale to a billions users.
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$266,000—$372,400 USD
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