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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Efficiency

Posted on 1 August 2026

About the role

💼 What you will do

• Build the infrastructure, tooling, and optimisation systems that enable ML engineers and researchers to train, evaluate, deploy, and operate models efficiently at scale. • Focus on improving developer productivity, reducing infrastructure costs, increasing hardware utilisation, and accelerating experimentation across Reddit's ML ecosystem. • Drive technical strategy for ML platform scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.

📋 Job Requirements

• Hold a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field. • Bring 5+ years of software engineering experience. • Demonstrate strong proficiency in Python. • Have proficiency in at least one systems language such as Go, C++, Rust, or Java. • Have experience building distributed systems at scale. • Bring experience with machine learning infrastructure, training systems, or model serving platforms. • Demonstrate deep understanding of performance engineering and systems optimisation. • Have strong debugging and profiling skills.

🌟 Nice-to-have

• Have experience with large-scale recommendation, ranking, generative AI, or foundation model systems. • Bring experience with distributed training frameworks such as PyTorch Distributed, Ray, TensorFlow, or Spark. • Have familiarity with GPU architectures and performance analysis tools. • Have experience optimising cloud infrastructure costs across large ML workloads. • Bring contributions to internal platforms used by multiple ML teams. • Have experience building real-time ML inference applications.

🎯 Responsibilities

• Design and build systems that improve the efficiency of ML training and inference workloads. • Develop tooling that helps ML engineers debug, profile, optimise, and monitor model performance. • Improve GPU and general resource utilisation through scheduling, resource management, caching, and workload optimisation. • 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. • Optimise 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.

About Reddit

😃 What Reddit offers

• Access global benefit programmes that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support. • Receive family planning support. • Access gender-affirming care. • Use mental health and coaching benefits. • Join the Group Personal Pension Scheme with employer match. • Access private medical and dental scheme. • Benefit from income replacement programmes. • Use the Bike to Work scheme. • Enjoy flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off. • Take generous paid parental leave.

💖 What makes Reddit unique

Reddit is a community of communities, home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information. Every day, users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about.

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