Remote Machine Learning Engineer, Search and Answers

Description:

• Reddit is a community-driven platform with over 100,000 active communities and approximately 101 million daily active unique visitors.
• The role is completely remote-friendly, with the option to work from physical office locations if desired.
• The Search and Answers team focuses on delivering relevant search results and recommendations to users.
• The Machine Learning Engineer will develop and enhance the Search Retrieval process, optimize lexical search, and design models for semantic retrieval.
• Responsibilities include training ranking models, building Query Understanding systems, and using advanced AI techniques for Reddit Answers.
• The role involves generating features that provide users with information about search result relevance and ensuring robust monitoring and low latency in pipelines.
• This position is high-impact, contributing to technical and product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites globally.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 5-10+ years of industry experience as a machine learning engineer.
• Experience in building and productionizing machine learning models using PyTorch or TensorFlow is required.
• Applicants should have experience working with search and recommender systems or query understanding systems at scale.
• Proficiency in building production-quality code with testing, evaluation, and monitoring using object-oriented programming, particularly in Python and Golang, is necessary.
• Familiarity with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift, or gRPC basics, and the ability to design maintainable APIs is essential.
• Experience in developing applications using a large-scale data stack, such as Kubeflow, Airflow, BigQuery, GraphQL, Kafka, and Redis, is required.

Benefits:

• Reddit offers comprehensive healthcare benefits to its employees.
• The company provides 401k matching to support retirement savings.
• Workspace benefits are available for home office setups.
• Personal and professional development funds are provided to encourage growth.
• Family planning support is included as part of the benefits package.
• Employees enjoy flexible vacation policies and Reddit Global Wellness Days.
• The company offers 4+ months of paid parental leave.
• Paid volunteer time off is also available to encourage community engagement.