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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Foundational Representations

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Key Responsibilities

driving designs & their review, establishing best practices in analysis, modeling and engineering, keeping the bar high.

Requirements Summary

7+ years of hands-on experience with the full lifecycle of designing, training, evaluating, testing, and deploying industry-level models.

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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.

Responsibilities

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→Providing technical leadership and mentorship to MLEs in the team: driving designs & their review, establishing best practices in analysis, modeling and engineering, keeping the bar high.
→Working closely with team/org leadership developing technical strategy for content-based embeddings & relevance for Ads.
→Developing new or iterating on existing embedding models for advertising use cases, ranging from aggregation pipelines to two-tower architectures and sequence models.
→Working with local and 3rd-party LLMs/VLMs: extract representations, develop evaluation methodologies, prompt tune and fine-tune large models to build state-of-the-art embeddings.
→Building data processing and inference pipelines for the models we develop.
→Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the various features we develop, end-to-end experimentation from internal benchmarks to downstream recommender system offline metrics to online experiments.
→Ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of the ML systems by writing automated tests, monitoring performance, and implementing best practices for model management.
→Participating in modeling and coding reviews: You will review work by other team members and provide feedback to ensure that it meets the team's standards for quality and performance.
→Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

Requirements

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7+ years of hands-on experience with the full lifecycle of designing, training, evaluating, testing, and deploying industry-level models.
Demonstrated Staff-level technical leadership: mentoring engineers, driving standards and bar raising, leading complex cross-functional projects: from requirements, design to cross-team/functional alignment and execution without direct people-management authority.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to different audiences, both verbally and in writing.
Strong track record of working on content rich NLP/CV problems at scale, and using embeddings as a tool to solve them.
Established data-driven approach for ML system development. Excitement about working with data and readiness to look behind the metric numbers.
Familiarity with the Ads domain and/or Search/Recommender systems.
Experience with mainstream DL frameworks: PyTorch or TensorFlow.

Experience with our stack (Python, Pytorch, Airflow, BigQuery, Ray, k8s, kafka, GCP)
Tech leadership experience: mentoring junior engineers and leading complex projects.
Hands-on experience with using/fine-tuning/building LLMs.

What We Offer

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✓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

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job

United Kingdom

Remote within one country

Who can apply

Listing Details

Posted: June 19, 2026
First seen: June 20, 2026
Last seen: August 22, 2026

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Trust Level: 76%
Scored at: June 20, 2026

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