Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance
- Salary
- $266,000 - $372,400
- Level
- Staff
- Work type
- Remote · US only
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 20 September 2026.
About the role
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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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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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Pay Transparency:
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This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base salary range for this position is:
$266,000—$372,400 USD
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What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Generative AI
Rare in Reddit's other 107 open postings.
Standard for data science / ML roles
Machine Learning
Common in data science / ML postings at any company.
63% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Reddit's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Reddit's other open postings on this site.
The team: ML & Search HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 12 open in ML & Search. 3 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in August: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Machine Learning (12 of 12), LLM (8 of 12), Python (6 of 12), PyTorch (6 of 12), TensorFlow (6 of 12), BigQuery (5 of 12), Generative AI (5 of 12)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Machine Learning Engineer, Answers Relevance posted Oct 18
- Senior Machine Learning Systems Engineer, ML Platform posted Oct 15
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Understanding posted Sep 30
- Senior Machine Learning Manager, Video Ranking posted Aug 12
- Machine Learning Manager, Feed Relevance (Retrieval) posted Jul 29
- Machine Learning Manager, Feed Ecosystems posted Jul 29
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Consumer posted Mar 24
- Staff Machine Learning Systems Engineer posted Mar 18
- Senior Machine Learning Systems Engineer posted Mar 18
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer posted Aug 14
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer posted Aug 14
From the team and dates on Reddit's own job board.
Posting history
Reposted once since 7 March 2026: a posting for this role in Remote - United States was taken down and the role was posted again.
- 20 September 2026 – open (this posting)
- 8 April 2026 – closed 22 May 2026
- 7 March 2026 – closed
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