# Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Growth)

**Company**: Discord
**Location**: San Francisco Bay Area
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,000-$275,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Discord is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the Engagement ML team in the Growth organization. The successful candidate will design and build end-to-end ML solutions to help new users find communities and content on Discord.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and scale recommendation systems that connect new users to communities and content.

- Solve cold-start personalization for users with limited history on Discord.

- Build and deploy ML models to improve new-user retention.

- Collaborate cross-functionally to shape the Onboarding roadmap.

Requirements:

- 5+ years of experience in Machine Learning, Data Science, or Applied Science.

- Hands-on experience building modern recommendation systems.

- Strong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.

- Experience taking ML systems from ideation to production at scale.

- Strong product intuition and excellent communication skills.

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

- 401(k) plan.

- Life and disability insurance.

- Paid time off.

- Paid parental leave.

Salary: $220,000-$275,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- Machine Learning
- Data Science
- Python
- PyTorch
- JAX
- TensorFlow
- recommendation systems
- personalization

### Nice to have
- cold-start personalization
- onboarding flows
- preference elicitation
- user representation models
- social-graph signals
- large-scale recommendation systems
- data infrastructure
- distributed computing
- vector search

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