Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out. Backed by Index.
About the role
Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Experience with cold-start or new-user personalization, onboarding flows, or preference elicitation
- Built user representation models or applied social-graph signals to recommendation problems
- Worked on growth or engagement problems for consumer products, such as community and content recommendations, user activation, or retention
- Experience with large-scale recommendation systems, data infrastructure, distributed computing, and vector search
More about this role
Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
We're looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our Engagement ML team, working as part of the cross-functional Onboarding squad in Discord's Growth organization. You'll design and build 0→1 end-to-end ML solutions that help brand-new users find their place on Discord: the servers, people, and content that turn a first session into a long-term connection to the product. If this excites you, keep reading!
- Design, build, and scale the recommendation systems that connect new users to communities and content, from candidate generation and ranking through to online serving.
- Solve cold-start personalization for users with little or no history on Discord, turning the limited signals available into recommendations for servers, communities, and content.
- Build and deploy ML models that lift new-user...
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