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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Forecasting & Scenarios

Reddit · Remote - United States · Remote

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About Reddit

Backed by 500 Global.

About the role

Build the machine learning capabilities that help advertisers understand what they could achieve on Reddit and make better investment decisions. You will lead models that estimate how campaign outcomes could change with different budgets, bids, audiences, creative performance, or objectives. The work connects supply and demand forecasting, audience availability, response prediction, and marketplace simulation to help advertisers compare alternatives and recognize valuable opportunities they may be missing. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • A track record of developing and shipping predictive ML systems in advertising, marketplaces, recommendations, search, demand forecasting, or similarly complex domains
  • Strong foundations in statistical learning, probability, and optimization, with experience modeling large-scale behavioral or transactional data
  • Depth in one or more relevant areas: probabilistic or hierarchical forecasting, calibrated conversion/value prediction, multitask or transfer learning, delayed-feedback or survival modeling, or response modeling
  • Strong judgment in evaluation, including temporal validation, calibration, segment-level performance, and the assumptions required to estimate outcomes under changed conditions
  • Experience addressing sparse observations, cold start, seasonality, distribution shift, selection bias, or partially observed labels
  • Strong programming and software engineering skills, including experience building and operating production ML systems
More about this role

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

Build the machine learning capabilities that help advertisers understand what they could achieve on Reddit and make better investment decisions.

You will lead models that estimate how campaign outcomes could change with different budgets, bids, audiences, creative performance, or objectives. The work connects supply and demand forecasting, audience availability, response prediction, and marketplace simulation to help advertisers compare alternatives and recognize valuable opportunities they may be missing.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role with ownership of modeling direction, evaluation standards, and reusable production capabilities across advertiser planning and recommendations.

  • Lead forecasting and scenario modeling....

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