[Hiring] Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Optimization @Reddit

Job Opportunity: Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Optimization (Remote, Canada)

Date: June 28, 2024

Reddit is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our remote team focused on Ads Optimization. This position is based in Canada.

About Reddit

Reddit is a vibrant community platform built on shared interests, passion, and trust. It's home to the most authentic conversations on the internet, with users submitting, voting, and commenting on topics they care about. With over 100,000 active communities and 82 million daily active users, Reddit is one of the largest sources of information online. For more details, visit .

Role Overview

As a company, Reddit generates revenue primarily through advertising. We stand out by connecting advertisers with specific target audiences through our deeply engaged communities.

Team Responsibilities

The Advertiser Optimization and Recommendation team focuses on bidding, budget utilization, and recommendation strategies to maximize return on advertiser spend and marketplace efficiency. This team builds and maintains products, APIs, and infrastructure to enhance advertiser performance with data-driven methods.

Key Projects:

• Enhancing advertiser planning, buying, and campaign optimization with auto bidding strategies, budget pacing algorithms, creative automation, traffic forecasting, and smart opportunities.
• Identifying bid and budget upsell opportunities to improve delivery results.
• Developing PID controllers to pace ad budgets throughout the day.
• Maximizing clicks and conversions within budget constraints.
• Implementing smart bidding and auto bidding strategies.
• Adopting privacy-centric standards and probabilistic attribution solutions for next-generation optimization tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop industrial-level models for critical ML tasks using advanced techniques.
• Research, implement, test, and launch new algorithms while improving existing models.
• Conduct systematic feature engineering to convert raw data into usable features.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product delivery.
• Contribute significantly to team strategy and planning for future developments.

Candidate Profile

• Proven track record of driving KPI wins through model architecture and feature engineering.
• 4+ years of experience in industry-level product development.
• 4+ years of experience in training, evaluating, testing, and deploying industry-level models.
• Experience in partnering with product managers and designers is a plus.
• Experience in the Ads domain is a plus.
• Knowledge of optimization and recommendation systems is a plus.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Retirement savings plan with matching contributions
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal and professional development funds
• Family planning support
• Flexible vacation and Reddit global days off

Join us at Reddit and help us build a community that is inclusive and empowering for everyone.

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