
Machine Learning Engineer
San Francisco, CA · HybridJob$217–303K/yrPosted todayStill listed today
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Job overview
Reddit seeks a Machine Learning Engineer to design, build, and deploy models for ad ranking, bidding, and optimization. The role owns the ML lifecycle, including feature engineering, scalable serving systems, production maintenance, monitoring, alerting, and automated retraining. The engineer collaborates across product and technical teams, researches new algorithms, and contributes to team strategy. Hybrid work from Reddit’s San Francisco offices is stated, with part-time telecommuting available.
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Full job description
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.
Job Duties: Design, build, and deploy industrial-level machine learning models to solve critical problems in ad ranking, bidding, and optimization. Take full ownership of the ML lifecycle, from ideation and research to building scalable serving systems and maintaining models in production. Perform systematic feature engineering to transform raw, diverse data into high-quality features that drive model performance. Work closely with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to translate business challenges into effective ML solutions. Improve the reliability and stability of our ML systems by building robust monitoring, alerting, and automated retraining pipelines. Research new algorithms, stay up-todate with state-of-the-art ML techniques, and contribute to the team’s strategy and roadmap. Part-time telecommuting is an option. Hybrid work from Reddit offices in San Francisco, CA.
Requirements: Master’s degree, or its foreign degree equivalent, in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering (any field), or a related quantitative discipline and two (2) years of experience in the job offered or in any occupation in related field.
Special Skill Requirements: (1) PII Data handling; (2) Kafka Infrastructure; (3) Data governance; (4) Batch data pipeline; (5) SLOs; (6) Graph service; (7) ML models; (8) XGboost; (9) LLM; (10) Google Cloud Platform. Any suitable combination of education, training and experience is acceptable. Part-time telecommuting is an option. Hybrid work from Reddit offices in San Francisco, CA.
Benefits:
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Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
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401k with Employer Match
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Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
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Family Planning Support
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Gender-Affirming Care
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Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
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Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
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Generous Paid Parental Leave
Submit a resume with references using the apply button on this posting or by email at: [email protected] at Req.# 1016.298.4.
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: $216,700.00 - $303,400.00 USD
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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.
How this job compares
Set against the 6,127 open Machine Learning Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$217–303K/yr
- California median$177–262K/yr1,407 salary ranges
- US median$150–245K/yr4,889 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $260K, is 17% above the California median midpoint ($223K) — in the middle half of Machine Learning Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,880 open Machine Learning Engineer jobs in California and 6,127 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Machine Learning Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 4,896 postings).
- Education
- 2,195 of the 6,127 open Machine Learning Engineer jobs (36%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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