Machine Learning Engineer, Ads

About Reddit

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

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!

Workforce Flexibility

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.

Team Description

Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. We’re currently hiring across multiple teams including: Ads Measurement Modeling, Ads Targeting & Retrieval, Advertiser Optimization and Ads Marketplace Teams.

Ads Measurement Modeling Team

This horizontal ML team in the Ads Measurement org works on proving the value of Reddit Ads to advertisers while ensuring privacy compliance. Their projects address challenges in signals, privacy, and identity, including Modeled Identity, Modeled Conversions, and enhancements for ATT opt-out utility.

Ads Targeting and Retrieval Team

This team designs and builds large-scale ML systems to improve targeting products. Their work spans offline and online retrieval systems that enhance contextual and behavioral targeting, helping advertisers reach the most relevant audiences.

Advertiser Optimization Team

This group consists of two horizontal teams focused on advertiser outcomes. The Recommendations and Forecasting team builds ML-driven tools for advertisers and sales, while the Bidding/Pacing team develops algorithms and customer-facing products like TCPA, TROAS, and performance advertising solutions. They work on marketplace dynamics, bidding and pacing innovations, and new advertiser tools.

Ads Marketplace Quality Team

This team improves the efficiency of Reddit’s ads marketplace by developing algorithms for auction and pricing optimization, directly impacting advertiser and user value. They also contribute to strategic initiatives such as supply optimization and ad relevance, with the goal of showing the right ads to the right users at the right time and in the right context.

Role Description

Join the Ads team as a Machine Learning Engineer and become a key contributor to Reddit’s business.