Reddit, Inc. · 1 day ago
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Creative Effectiveness
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$230K/yr - $322K/yrReddit is a community of communities built on shared interests and authentic conversations. They are seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead the development of generative products for ad creative, focusing on advanced machine learning workflows and collaboration across teams.
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Responsibilities
Architect and implement state-of-the-art pipelines for ad creative generation
Build editing capabilities allowing advertisers to smart-crop, inpaint, outpaint, resize, and style-transfer assets while maintaining strict brand guidelines
Adapt large vision-language models to understand 'winning' ad aesthetics
Build feedback loops where ad performance metrics (CTR, CVR) are used to fine-tune the generation process (RLHF/RLPF for Ads)
Design low-latency inference stacks for diffusion and transformer models
Engineer robust filtering and safety systems
Collaborate with Product, Sales, Policy, UX, and sibling Ads ML teams to integrate ACE capabilities into the Ad Manager UI and the ad delivery path
Embed brand-safety filters, copyright checks, and human-in-the-loop escalation paths to protect users and advertisers
Qualification
Required
Hands-on experience with tree models, neural nets, ranking, and especially LLM/VLM fine-tuning & RLHF/RLPF for ads
Comfort with uplift metrics, variance, minimum detectable effects and experimentation setups for generative systems
Understanding auction dynamics and advertiser pain points to create tools that drive revenue and retention
Bias to action, comfort with ambiguity, and scrappiness: ACE evolved from a startup acquisition and still moves fast
Able to distill complex ML trade-offs for executives, product managers, and non-technical stakeholders alike
Prior work on ad creative tooling: Headline generators, image generators, pre-test models, editing flows for the advertiser
Architect and implement state-of-the-art pipelines for ad creative generation
Build editing capabilities allowing advertisers to smart-crop, inpaint, outpaint, resize, and style-transfer assets while maintaining strict brand guidelines
Adapt large vision-language models to understand 'winning' ad aesthetics
Design low-latency inference stacks for diffusion and transformer models
Engineer robust filtering and safety systems
Collaborate with Product, Sales, Policy, UX, and sibling Ads ML teams to integrate ACE capabilities into the Ad Manager UI and the ad delivery path
Embed brand-safety filters, copyright checks, and human-in-the-loop escalation paths to protect users and advertisers
Preferred
Experience navigating brand-safety, privacy, or copyright frameworks in generative AI products
Benefits
Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k with Employer Match
Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
Family Planning Support
Gender-Affirming Care
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
Generous Paid Parental Leave
Company
Reddit, Inc.
Reddit is the heart of the internet, where millions of people get together to talk about any topic imaginable.
Founded in 2005
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$1.33BKey Investors
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2024-03-21IPO
2021-08-12Series F· $410M
2021-02-08Series E· $367.95M
Leadership Team
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CEO
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CTO
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