# Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance

**Company:** [Reddit](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/reddit)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $266k – $372k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Machine Learning, Generative AI, recommender systems, feed ranking, relevance modeling, personalization, software systems, Scalability, reliability, user experience
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> Leads the technical direction and development of large-scale, GenAI-powered recommendation and feed-ranking systems. Requires 10+ years of industry experience in relevance-driven products, deep expertise in machine learning and recommendations, and strong organizational influence and mentoring skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Deliver technical initiatives with significant company-wide impact.
- Set technical direction for the broader Relevance and Feeds teams, identifying opportunities and influencing strategy across multiple organizations.
- Partner with management on goal setting, planning, and de-risking critical projects.
- Mentor and grow Senior and Staff engineers.
- Create a strong, healthy engineering culture.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of industry experience building systems for relevance-driven products.
- Subject matter expertise in relevance, recommendation, and machine learning systems, with the ability to solve complex problems in these domains.
- Deep understanding of building sustainable software systems at a large-scale engineering organization.
- Experience influencing organizations on technical direction and best practices.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams, including design, product, business, and data teams.
- Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, reliability, and quality.
- High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise across the engineering organization.

## Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Global benefit programs supporting workspace, professional development, and caregiving.
- Family planning support.
- Gender-affirming care.
- Mental health and coaching benefits.
- Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off.
- Generous paid parental leave.
- Equity in the form of restricted stock units may be available, depending on the position offered.

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