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Machine Learning Engineer

Reddit San Francisco, CA Full-time Engineering Posted Jun 22, 2026
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What it’s like to work at Reddit

Social Platform · San Francisco

3.8
Employee Rating
3.5
Work-Life Balance
167
Open Roles
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What employees love

  • Public company equity with strong comp (4.1/5) — engineers ship to hundreds of millions
  • 'Default Open' culture with comprehensive benefits and flexible time off

What could be better

  • Inconsistent management and shifting strategies create uncertainty across teams
  • 54% recommend rate — recent layoffs and reorgs have dampened morale
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About the Role

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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

Job Duties: Design and implement the next generation ML based systems that power Reddit. Work closely with product and ML engineers to design and implement scalable interfaces. Collaborate with other engineers to improve the recommendation systems and models that power personalization and discovery. Train, evaluate, and deploy sophisticated machine learning models to improve experiences for millions of users. Participate in the full software development cycle: design, develop, QA, deploy, experiment, analyze and iterate. Collaborate across disciplines and with other ML teams at Reddit to find technical solutions to complex challenges. Full-time telecommuting is an option.

Minimum Requirements: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any field) or closely related quantitative discipline and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or in any occupation in related field.

Special Skill Requirements: (1) Recommendation and Ranking System Design and Algorithms; (2) PyTorch and Tensorflow; (3) AWS, S3 and RDS; (4) Scikit-learn; (5) Pandas; (6) Writing production-grade software for large-scale, real-time recommender systems; (7) Machine Learning related tooling and frameworks; (8) Advanced Deep Learning theory and algorithms; (9) Analysis of large-scale datasets; (10) Design and implementation of large-scale A/B tests; (11) Cloud environments (GCP) and relevant tooling (BigQuery); and (12) Microservices architecture. Any suitable combination of education, training and experience is acceptable. Full-time telecommuting is an option.

Benefits:

Submit a resume with references using the apply button on this posting or by email at: applicationsreview@reddit.com at Req.# 1016.271.3.

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies.

The base pay range for this position is: $187,574.00 - $260,100.00 USD

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In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable. We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes. We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision. For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the work-life balance like at Reddit?
Reddit has a work-life balance score of 3.5/5 based on employee reviews. This is about average for the AI/tech industry.
What is Reddit’s culture like?
Reddit is characterized by these culture values: eng-driven, equity, learning, product-impact. Based on employee reviews, the company has an overall rating of 3.8/5. Public company equity with strong comp (4.1/5) — engineers ship to hundreds of millions
How many open roles does Reddit have?
Reddit currently has 167 open roles across departments including engineering, product, sales, and more. Roles are refreshed daily from their careers page.
Is this role remote-friendly?
This role is located in San Francisco, CA. Check the job description above for specific location and remote work details.
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