Reddit is looking to automate targeting and deliver the most relevant audiences to advertisers under the right context with ML-driven solutions for their Ads Targeting ML team.
Requirements
- Tech lead experience in a product ML team driving the research and technical direction to improve business outcomes using applied ML
- Experience with ads retrieval modeling, ranking or recommendation systems
- Experience with deep learning models for retrieval (two tower, GNNs, transformers, LLMs)
- 5+ years of end-to-end experience of training, evaluating, testing, and deploying machine learning models
- 2+ years of experience building machine learning models with Tensorflow/Pytorch
- Experience with large scale data processing & pipeline orchestration tools like Spark, Dataflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, BigQuery
- Experience working with nearest-neighbor search systems is a big plus
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end design and execution of ML-based targeting products like auto targeting, user lookalikes etc.
- Drive research direction and technical roadmap for complex projects, lead day to day project execution, and contribute meaningfully to team vision and strategy
- Research, implement, test, and launch new model architectures for retrieval using deep learning (GNNs, transformers, two tower models, LLMs) with a focus on improving advertiser outcomes
- Own offline & online experimentation of ML models for improving targeting products
- Work on large scale data systems, and product integration
- Collaborate closely with multiple stakeholders cross product, engineering, research and marketing
Other
- Be a thought leader for the team and collaborate closely with product managers and cross-functional partners to develop and prioritize the roadmap based on data analysis, industry research and product research
- Provide mentorship to junior MLEs
- Experience working with cross functional stakeholders across research, product & infrastructure to productize ML research
- Tech lead experience in a product team is strongly preferred
- Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.
