Remote Machine Learning Engineer, Search and Answers
at Reddit
Posted 3 weeks ago
3 applied
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.