Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads

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 121 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.Reddit has a flexible workforce! If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. Don't live near one of our offices? No worries: You can apply to work remotely in any country in which we have a physical presence. We’re evolving and continuing our mission to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Providing a delightful and relevant experience to our users applies to our Ads like all of our offerings, and we’re excited to build a product that is best-in-class for our users and advertisers. The year ahead is a busy one!Team DescriptionReddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. We’re currently hiring across multiple teams including: Ads Prediction, App Ads & Conversion Modeling, Ads Measurement Modeling, Ads Targeting & Retrieval, Advertiser Optimization and Ads Marketplace Teams. Ads ML Serving Team Part of Reddit’s Ads ML Platform, this team builds a highly reliable, scalable, and efficient ML serving stack. They focus on long-term architecture, tight integration with the ads serving stack, CPU/GPU performance optimization, and model velocity tools like observability libraries and quality gating.Attribution & Identity Team This team builds attribution systems and identity solutions that help advertisers measure the impact of their campaigns. They create experimentation tools and platforms that improve usability, transparency, and performance insights.Ads Measurement Modeling Team A horizontal ML team in the Ads Measurement org focused on proving Reddit Ads value while maintaining privacy compliance. Their work includes Modeled Identity, Modeled Conversions, and ATT opt-out utility enhancements.Ads Targeting and Retrieval Team This team designs and implements large-scale ML systems to improve targeting products. They work on offline and online retrieval systems to enhance contextual and behavioral targeting.Advertiser Optimization Team Composed of two horizontal teams, this group focuses on advertiser outcomes. The Recommendations and Forecasting team builds ML-driven tools for advertisers and sales. The Bidding/Pacing team develops algorithms and products like TCPA, TROAS, and performance advertising solutions, while driving innovations in marketplace dynamics.Ads Marketplace Quality Team This team optimizes Reddit’s ads marketplace by building algorithms for auction and pricing efficiency. They also work on supply optimization and ad relevance, ensuring ads reach the right users at the right time in the right context.App Ads and Conversion Modeling Teams Formed in early 2024, these teams focus on app ads modeling, including app install models and deep neural network models for iOS and Android conversions. They work on in-app event optimization and return on ad spend (RoAS) optimization, and are running experiments on top of DNN architectures to improve prediction accuracy.Ads Prediction Team This team drives innovation across signals, features, model architecture, and infrastructure to improve marketplace efficiency and revenue. It includes:Core Ads Ranking (CAR): Builds reusable, scalable features and ranking models that integrate across the ads ecosystem, improving quality and iteration speed.Engagement Modeling (EV): Develops click, long-click, and video engagement models for upper- and middle-funnel ad products.The Ads Creative Effectiveness teamThis team is a newly formed group aimed at improving ad creative at Reddit through generative and predictive products. We train, adapt and finetune LLMs/VLMs to help advertisers make impactful images, videos and text. We build performance predictors to understand and rank ad components, ensuring the advertiser ships the best possible campaigns. We construct insight and recommendation engines to guide advertisers towards best practices and key enhancements, distilling knowledge about what works at Reddit to supercharge their performance.This team is at the heart of Reddit’s creative strategy, a core priority for the organization.Reddit Ads offers the opportunity to work on large-scale systems that directly impact advertisers, users, and revenue. We have openings across multiple teams and are looking for engineers and ML experts at all levels.Role DescriptionJoin the Ads team as a Machine Learning Engineer and become a key contributor to Reddit’s business. In this hands-on role, you will be responsible for the full lifecycle of our ML systems, from initial