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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Efficiency
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Seniority signalLead
Work settingRemote
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NetherlandsUnited Kingdom
Role overview
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Efficiency
Requirements and responsibilities
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- Design and build systems that improve the efficiency of ML training and inference workloads.
- Develop tooling that helps ML engineers debug, profile, optimize, and monitor model performance.
- Improve GPU and general resource utilization through scheduling, resource management, caching, and workload optimization.
- Partner with ML researchers and product teams to identify bottlenecks and drive performance improvements.
- Build benchmarking frameworks and performance dashboards for training and serving systems.
- Optimize distributed training infrastructure, data pipelines, and model serving architectures.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives that improve the productivity of Reddit ML engineers.
- Drive technical strategy for ML platform scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Profiency in at least one systems language (Go, C++, Rust, or Java) preferred
- Experience building distributed systems at scale.
- Experience with machine learning infrastructure, training systems, or model serving platforms.
- Deep understanding of performance engineering and systems optimization.
- Strong debugging and profiling skills.
- Experience with large-scale recommendation, ranking, generative AI, or foundation model systems.
- Experience with distributed training frameworks such as PyTorch Distributed, Ray, Tensorflow, Spark
- Familiarity with GPU architectures and performance analysis tools.
- Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure costs across large ML workloads.
- Contributions to internal platforms used by multiple ML teams.
- Experience with building real time ML inference applications
- ML engineers can move from idea to experiment faster.
- Training and inference costs decrease, performance increases, while model quality is maintained or improved.
- GPU utilization and cluster efficiency increase.
- Platform reliability improves as ML workloads scale.
- Teams spend less time managing infrastructure and more time building models.
- Average recommendation model size increases.
- 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
- Private Pension plan with Employer-matching
- 100% employer-sponsored group medical plan
- Income Replacement Programs
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
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