# Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Safety) at Discord

- Company: Discord
- What the company does: Backed by Index.
- Company website: http://discordapp.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $220K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord/jobs/8369347002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/discord-senior-software-engineer-machine-learning-safety/

## 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.

## What they're looking for

- Analyze data to identify risk patterns and inform the design of machine learning models
- Build, iterate on, and evaluate models that detect risk and anomalous behavior
- Work with product, engineering, legal, and Trust and Safety partners to deliver effective ML solutions
- Work with partner teams in Trust & Safety to curate golden label sets at scale and improve data labeling techniques for model training
- Deploy models into production systems, writing backend code as needed to ensure scalability and reliability, and monitor performance
- Document modeling approaches and systems, and apply current machine learning best practices

Tags: Developers