Reddit, Inc.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Optimization
Reddit, Inc., Little Ferry, New Jersey, us, 07643
Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on content, stories, and discussions about the topics they care about the most. From pets to parenting, with over 100,000 active communities and over 70 million daily active users, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visit redditinc.com.
As a company, Reddit primarily generates revenue through advertising, and we're working towards building a massive business to fund our mission. We distinguish ourselves from other digital ad platforms by attracting advertisers who want to connect with a specific target audience because of our passionate and engaged communities.
Required
Ads optimization and recommendation team is responsible for setting bidding, budget utilization and recommendation for reddit and advertisers on how to set smart bids, and auction strategy to maximize return on advertiser spend and marketplace efficiency. This team develops and maintains the products, APIs, and infrastructure required to automate advertiser optimizations to maximize ads performance and ROAS with data driven approaches. The team works on building a series of products to automate and enhance advertiser’s planning, buying and campaign optimization experience with Reddit ads, including auto bidding strategies, budget pacing algorithms, creative automation, traffic forecasting, bid recommendation, smart opportunities, diagnostic tools etc.This team owns a critical piece in the ads delivery pipeline and machine learning infrastructure. Some of the project highlights include:
Identify bid and budget upsell opportunities for daily active flights, and give users actionable recommendations for boosting delivery resultsPID controller for pacing the budget throughout the dayMaximize clicks while being able to spend through budget without exceeding deliverySmart bidding, auto bidding, no bid optimization for advertisersDriving automation and enhancement of advertiser’s planning, buying and campaign optimization experience with Reddit ads, including auto bidding strategies, budget pacing algorithms, creative automation, traffic forecasting, bid recommendation, smart opportunities, diagnostic tools etc.Adopting new privacy-centric standards and APIs and leveraging probabilistic attribution solutions to build the next generation of optimization tools
As a Senior machine learning engineer in the Ads optimization and recommendation , you will research, formulate, and execute projects, and actively participate in the end-to-end implementation process. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product delivery. You will also have the opportunity to contribute your expertise and shape the future of ads ML at Reddit.
We are seeking a highly skilled engineer to take a critical role in the advancement of state-of-the-art optimization models. You will serve as a visionary in designing these models, actively participate in the end-to-end implementation process,
Your Responsibilities
Building industrial-level models for critical ML tasks with advanced modeling techniquesResearch, implement, test, and launch new algorithms and make improvements on the existing modelsSystematic feature engineering works to convert all kinds of raw data in Reddit (dense & sparse, behavior & content, etc) into features with various FE technologies such as aggregation, embedding, sub-models, etc.Be a team player and work closely with cross-functional membersContribute meaningfully to team strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning for the future
Who You Might Be
Tracking records of consistently driving KPI wins through systematic works around model architecture and feature engineering3+ years of experience with industry-level product development4+ years of end-to-end experience of training, evaluating, testing, and deploying industry-level models4+ years of experience of orchestrating complicated data generation pipelines on large-scale datasetExperience partnering with product managers and designers to build new products is a plusExperience with Ads domain is a plusExperience with optimization and recommendation systems is a plus
Benefits
Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits401k MatchingWorkspace benefits for your home officePersonal & Professional development fundsFamily Planning SupportFlexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days4+ months paid Parental LeavePaid Volunteer time off
Join us at Reddit, and help us build a community that is inclusive and empowering for everyone.
Pay Transparency
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The Base Pay Range For This Position Is
$216,700—$303,400 USD
Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at
ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com
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As a company, Reddit primarily generates revenue through advertising, and we're working towards building a massive business to fund our mission. We distinguish ourselves from other digital ad platforms by attracting advertisers who want to connect with a specific target audience because of our passionate and engaged communities.
Required
Ads optimization and recommendation team is responsible for setting bidding, budget utilization and recommendation for reddit and advertisers on how to set smart bids, and auction strategy to maximize return on advertiser spend and marketplace efficiency. This team develops and maintains the products, APIs, and infrastructure required to automate advertiser optimizations to maximize ads performance and ROAS with data driven approaches. The team works on building a series of products to automate and enhance advertiser’s planning, buying and campaign optimization experience with Reddit ads, including auto bidding strategies, budget pacing algorithms, creative automation, traffic forecasting, bid recommendation, smart opportunities, diagnostic tools etc.This team owns a critical piece in the ads delivery pipeline and machine learning infrastructure. Some of the project highlights include:
Identify bid and budget upsell opportunities for daily active flights, and give users actionable recommendations for boosting delivery resultsPID controller for pacing the budget throughout the dayMaximize clicks while being able to spend through budget without exceeding deliverySmart bidding, auto bidding, no bid optimization for advertisersDriving automation and enhancement of advertiser’s planning, buying and campaign optimization experience with Reddit ads, including auto bidding strategies, budget pacing algorithms, creative automation, traffic forecasting, bid recommendation, smart opportunities, diagnostic tools etc.Adopting new privacy-centric standards and APIs and leveraging probabilistic attribution solutions to build the next generation of optimization tools
As a Senior machine learning engineer in the Ads optimization and recommendation , you will research, formulate, and execute projects, and actively participate in the end-to-end implementation process. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product delivery. You will also have the opportunity to contribute your expertise and shape the future of ads ML at Reddit.
We are seeking a highly skilled engineer to take a critical role in the advancement of state-of-the-art optimization models. You will serve as a visionary in designing these models, actively participate in the end-to-end implementation process,
Your Responsibilities
Building industrial-level models for critical ML tasks with advanced modeling techniquesResearch, implement, test, and launch new algorithms and make improvements on the existing modelsSystematic feature engineering works to convert all kinds of raw data in Reddit (dense & sparse, behavior & content, etc) into features with various FE technologies such as aggregation, embedding, sub-models, etc.Be a team player and work closely with cross-functional membersContribute meaningfully to team strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning for the future
Who You Might Be
Tracking records of consistently driving KPI wins through systematic works around model architecture and feature engineering3+ years of experience with industry-level product development4+ years of end-to-end experience of training, evaluating, testing, and deploying industry-level models4+ years of experience of orchestrating complicated data generation pipelines on large-scale datasetExperience partnering with product managers and designers to build new products is a plusExperience with Ads domain is a plusExperience with optimization and recommendation systems is a plus
Benefits
Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits401k MatchingWorkspace benefits for your home officePersonal & Professional development fundsFamily Planning SupportFlexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days4+ months paid Parental LeavePaid Volunteer time off
Join us at Reddit, and help us build a community that is inclusive and empowering for everyone.
Pay Transparency
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The Base Pay Range For This Position Is
$216,700—$303,400 USD
Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at
ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com
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