JobPosting
title: Machine Learning Manager, Feed Relevance (Retrieval)
description: Reddit is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Feed Retrieval team. In this role, you'll lead a high-impact team of Machine Learning Engineers building the systems that identify, retrieve, and shape the candidate inventory powering Reddit's personalized feeds. Your team will work at the foundation of Feed Relevance: expanding the set of high-quality content Reddit can recommend, improving personalization and discovery for users across different levels of signal, and building scalable ML systems that directly shape the experiences of over 120M+ daily users. Responsibilities Define Technical Vision & Strategy: Define the technical vision and long-term roadmap for Feed Retrieval, aligning large-scale recommender-system investments with Reddit's product, ecosystem, and business objectives. Roadmap & Prioritization: Translate broad Feed Relevance goals into a focused team roadmap, making clear prioritization tradeoffs across model quality, inventory expansion, experimentation velocity, infrastructure cost, and operational reliability. Team Leadership & Development: Coach and support the development of your team, constantly seeking opportunities to grow their skills and impact. Technical Execution & Delivery: Oversee the design, development, and optimization of retrieval systems that source relevant, diverse, fresh, and high-quality candidates for personalized feed experiences. Measurement & Learning: Establish strong measurement, experimentation, and debugging practices so the team can understand retrieval quality, candidate coverage, source incrementality, and downstream impact. Platform & Infrastructure Collaboration: Collaborate with ML platform, infrastructure, ranking, safety, and product teams to build scalable, low-latency retrieval systems that can support the next generation of AI-powered recommendations. Operational Excellence: Maintain high standards for system performance, reliability, latency, cost efficiency, and responsible recommenda…
date posted: 2026-07-30T13:10:24.525Z
valid through: 2026-10-01T14:02:55.971Z
direct apply: false
occupational category: Engineering
industry: Technology
skills: Machine Learning
skills: Recommender Systems
skills: Retrieval Models
skills: Embedding-Based Systems
skills: Sequence Models
skills: Transformer-Based Architectures
skills: LLM-Powered Recommendation Applications
hiring organization: Reddit
job location type: TELECOMMUTE
employment type: FULL_TIME
base salary: MonetaryAmount
  currency: USD
  value: QuantitativeValue
    min value: 253300
    max value: 354600
    unit text: YEAR