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# Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads ML Efficiency at Reddit

- **Company:** Reddit
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $230k–$322k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/8247280

## 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 130 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: Reddit has a flexible first workforce. Don't live near our office? No worries: you can work remotely from anywhere in the US or Canada.

## About the Team

The ML Efficiency team builds the infrastructure, tooling, and optimization systems that enable machine learning engineers and researchers to train, evaluate, deploy, and operate models efficiently at scale. We focus on improving developer productivity, reducing infrastructure costs, increasing hardware utilization, and accelerating experimentation across the company’s ML ecosystem.

## Responsibilities

- Design and build systems that improve the efficiency of ML training and inference workloads.
- Develop tooling that helps ML engineers debug, profile, optimize, and monitor model performance.
- Improve GPU and general resource utilization through scheduling, resource management, caching, and workload optimization.
- Partner with ML researchers and product teams to identify bottlenecks and drive performance improvements.
- Build benchmarking frameworks and performance dashboards for training and serving systems.
- Optimize distributed training infrastructure, data pipelines, and model serving architectures.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives that improve the productivity of Reddit ML engineers.
- Drive technical strategy for ML platform scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.

## Qualifications

Required

- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Profiency in at least one systems language (Go, C++, Rust, or Java) preferred
- Experience building distributed systems at scale.
- Experience with machine learning infrastructure, training systems, or model serving platforms.
- Deep understanding of performance engineering and systems optimization.
- Strong debugging and profiling skills.

## Preferred

- Experience with large-scale recommendation, ranking, generative AI, or foundation model systems.
- Experience with distributed training frameworks such as PyTorch Distributed, Ray, Tensorflow, Spark
- Familiarity with GPU architectures and performance analysis tools.
- Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure costs across large ML workloads.
- Contributions to internal platforms used by multiple ML teams.
- Experience with building real time ML inference applications

What Success Looks Like

- ML engineers can move from idea to experiment faster.
- Training and inference costs decrease, performance increases, while model quality is maintained or improved.
- GPU utilization and cluster efficiency increase.
- Platform reliability improves as ML workloads scale.
- Teams spend less time managing infrastructure and more time building models.
- Average recommendation model size increases.

Benefits:

- 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
- Group Personal Pension Scheme with Employer match
- Private Medical and Dental Scheme
- Income Replacement Programs
- Bike to Work scheme
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave

Pay Transparency:

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: $230,000—$322,000 USD

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.  We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.  We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.  For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our [Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors](https://redditinc.com/policies/candidate-privacy-policy).

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

## About Reddit

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Reddit is the heart of the internet, a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: RDDT, IPO March 2024)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2005
- **Founders**: Steve Huffman, Alexis Ohanian (original co-founders; Huffman remains CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Social Networking Platforms
- **Target customers**: B2C (users), B2B (advertisers, data licensing partners). Massive global consumer audience; advertisers range from SMB to enterprise.
- **Mission**: To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to everyone.

## Products & Services
- **Reddit Platform**: The core social network consisting of thousands of user-created subreddits. Users post, vote, comment, and build communities around any topic. Free to use.
- **Reddit Ads**: Self-serve and managed advertising solutions including display, video, and promoted posts. Key revenue driver.
- **Reddit Premium**: Subscription offering ad-free browsing, exclusive badges, and access to a private subreddit.
- **Reddit Public Access (API)**: Data feeds and APIs used by third-party developers, researchers, and increasingly for AI training data licensing.
- **KarmaLab**: Reddit’s in-house creative agency that helps brands create native content and campaigns.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Publicly traded company; market cap fluctuates with stock price (specific figure not provided in search results). As of 2025 annual revenue of $2.2B, the company is valued in the tens of billions.
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue: ~$2.2B (latest fiscal year). Daily Active Uniques: 127M (as of March 31, 2026). Weekly Active Uniques: 493M+.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company Advance Publications, Inc.; Tencent (led Series D); various institutional and retail investors post-IPO.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 21.2% YoY to 3,009 employees. Active job postings up 18.9% YoY. Revenue scaling rapidly as ad business grows toward $1B target. International expansion across 50+ countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unique community-driven content**: User-generated, authentic, and highly engaged communities that are difficult to replicate. Over 100,000 active subreddits.
- **Data moat**: Massive archive of human conversations and knowledge (25B+ posts & comments) – increasingly valuable for AI training and research.
- **Brand recognition and cultural influence**: Reddit is a top-10 website globally, driving real-world impact (e.g., WallStreetBets, AMAs).
- **Moderator ecosystem**: Volunteer moderators curate high-quality content at scale, reducing content moderation costs while maintaining quality.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growing the advertising business**: Scaling ad revenue to $1B+ through improved ad products, self-serve tools, and international sales expansion.
- **AI and data licensing**: Monetizing Reddit’s unique content corpus through partnerships with AI companies (e.g., Google) and building AI-powered features.
- **International expansion**: Growing user base and ad sales in key markets (UK, Canada, Portugal, Netherlands, India, etc.).
- **Product innovation**: Investing in video, real-time features, and improving the user experience to retain and grow daily active users.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as fun, quirky, and authentic. Core values include “Reddit’s Mission First,” “Add Value,” “Play to Win,” “Evolve,” and “Default Open.”
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health benefits, flexible vacation & global days off, family planning funds, 4+ months paid parental leave, personal & professional development funds, workspace/home office benefits.
- **Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)**: Active ERGs including Ability, Allyship, Black People Reddit (BPR), Kaleidoscope, LGBTQ Snoo, OLE, RAN, Trans@Reddit, Women Eng, Women in Product, Women of Reddit.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/office policy not explicitly stated in search results; many roles are likely based in San Francisco or other offices (NYC, Toronto, etc.). Engineering culture emphasizes autonomy, impact, and building products used by millions.
- **Career growth**: Rapid headcount growth and promotion opportunities; strong alumni network (Meta, Google, Amazon, etc.). Employee rating 3.8/5 on LinkedIn (compensation 4.1, culture 3.2, career 3.2).

## Sources
1. [redditinc.com](https://redditinc.com/careers) – Careers page with mission, values, benefits, ERGs, departments.
2. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit) – Current job openings.
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/reddit-com) – Company profile with financials, headcount, revenue, funding, employee data.
4. [investor.redditinc.com](https://investor.redditinc.com/overview/default.aspx) – Investor relations with key metrics (DAU, WAU, communities).
5. [sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000171344526000062/redditinc10-k2025.pdf) – 2025 Form 10-K with corporate info, employee count, values, risk factors.

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