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From the employer's careers site First seen 7 Nov 2026

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Growth)

Salary

$220,000-$275,000 USD per year

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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

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

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord/jobs/8910013002

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