Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing. The Opportunity at Altana We're looking for a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead the AI behind Altana Nexus, our agentic platform for global trade. You'll work on a continuous stream of public and proprietary trade data (shipments, customs filings, trade documents), and build the models and AI agents that turn it into real-time decisions on risk, compliance and enforcement for governments and the world's largest companies. Your Responsibilities Drive the technical direction for agentic systems. Define the architecture and roadmap for the models and agentic systems that process trade data as it arrives (shipments, customs declarations, invoices, bills of lading) and turn it into risk, classification and compliance decisions in real time. Build the pipeline from ingestion to decision. Lead the design of reliable, cost-efficient systems for ingestion, document understanding, entity resolution, inference and routing across models, at the scale of global trade. Adapt models to trade. Use analyst feedback, production outcomes and agent traces to fine-tune and post-train models (SFT, DPO, RL with domain graders) where it measurably beats prompting, and keep every model improving over time. Design the observability and feedback stack. Build the evals, tracing and feedback loops that decide what ships and catch regressions in production. Lead beyond your team. Mentor senior engineers, raise the technical bar across Engineering, and help shape how we hire and level ML talent. Shape the product and the business. Work with software engineers, data scientists, product managers and customers to generate new business ideas and turn ambiguous problems into shipped capabilities. About You BS/MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent experi

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 . We’re looking for a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead Reddit’s next-generation user understanding initiative: building a unified, high-fidelity representation of each user that powers personalization across the platform. This role requires deep expertise in mainstream ML user modeling approaches (e.g., large-scale embeddings, user interest modeling, affinities, behavioral signals) and the ability to reimagine these systems in the GenAI era—leveraging LLMs and foundation models to unlock step-change improvements in fidelity, adaptability, and expressiveness. You will set the technical direction for this space, leading the design and implementation of Reddit’s core user representation layer—spanning embeddings, interest modeling, and key user attributes. You’ll ensure this foundation is scalable, reliable, and widely adopted across Feeds, Search, Notifications, and Ads, partnering closely with product, infrastructure, and downstream ML teams to drive measurable impact. This is a high-impact role. The systems you build will shape how hundreds of millions of people experience Reddit every day—what they see, what they discover, and the communities they connect with. Your work will directly advance personalization and relevance at global scale, strengthening Reddit as a platform for meaningful connection and belonging. What you'll do: Design User Understanding Strategy: Define a unified user understanding framework and strategy: how users are represented (embeddings, tags, attributes, LLM-based user profile), how

About the Team The Consumer Engineering Team is responsible for helping consumers discover and order everything they love globally. Our work spans the entire consumer journey across homepage, search, store discovery, item exploration, checkout and post checkout. We aim to craft a hyper-personalized, delightful and frictionless experience for millions of our customers. About the Role As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer on Core Cx, you will set the personalization (P13n) strategy for the entire consumer shopping journey and bring that strategy to life. You will use our robust data and machine learning infrastructure to implement new ML solutions to make the consumer search experience more relevant, seamless, and delightful across restaurant, grocery, retail and all business at DoorDash . You will modernize the recommendation system leveraging AI. You will demonstrate a strong command of production level machine learning, experience with solving end-user problems, and collaborate well with multi-disciplinary teams. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Drive the engineering vision, strategy, and execution for an organization of 150+ Grow, build, and nurture impactful business-focused product engineering teams. Scale the team by developing leaders internally and attracting world-class talent Mentor and guide a fast-growing organization in setting the right architectural patterns, working with various vendors in the space, and making judicious investments in the right areas anticipating what the company needs a few years down the road. Partner with Business, Product, and other Engineering teams to transform DoorDash from local commerce to agentic commerce We're excited about you because you have… B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent. 10+ years of industry experience developing machine learning models with business impact, and shipping ML solutions to production. Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code) in th

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 . About the Role: We are seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to define and accelerate how we leverage agentic AI to transform machine learning models and modeling workflows. This high-impact role focuses directly on modeling leverage —enhancing model quality and velocity—rather than building general infrastructure. As a senior staff engineer, you will operate as a technical leader across the entire modeling loop, utilizing modern AI-assisted development systems (such as Claude, Cursor, and comparable tools) to make model development faster, more rigorous, and significantly more effective across the organization. Why Join Us? This role offers a domain-flexible platform to redefine how ML engineering is done. If you are passionate about combining deep ML fundamentals with the vanguard of agentic AI to multiply team impact, we’d love to talk to you. What you’ll do: Develop advanced ML models and the agentic workflows that help teams design, train, evaluate, and improve them. Use tools such as Claude, Cursor, and comparable AI-assisted development systems to investigate model behavior, generate and test hypotheses, automate repetitive analysis, and improve code and experiments. Build reliable loops for data and label analysis, feature and embedding development, architecture comparison, hyperparameter optimization, error analysis, and experiment readouts. Design evaluation harnesses that measure both model outcomes and agent/workflow quality, including correctness, reproducibility, regressions, cost, a

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 . Who We Are: The Machine Learning Platform team at Reddit is a high-impact team that owns the infrastructure that powers recommendations, content discovery, user and content quantification, while directly impacting other teams such as Growth, Ads, Feeds, and Core Machine Learning teams. What You’ll Do: As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will help define and lead the vision for Reddit’s large-scale GenAI Platform, shaping the strategy, architecture, and operating model that enable teams across the company to build, deploy, and scale generative AI products with confidence. Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the LLM Gateway, focusing on features like unified API endpoints for internal/externally hosted LLM, rate/token limit management, and intelligent failover mechanisms to boost uptime and reliability. Lead and execute the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Reddit’s large-scale GenAI Platform. Define the platform architecture and operating model that enable teams to build, deploy, and scale GenAI products reliably. Drive the strategy for a unified LAG Gateway supporting internally and externally hosted LLMs through consistent APIs and abstractions. Set the direction for core platform capabilities such as rate and token limit management, intelligent failover, and production resilience. Shape Reddit’s approach to an enterprise-grade RAG system Establish the strategic direction for agentic AI workflows and tool-use patterns across the platform. Own the end-to-end platform strategy from concept t

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 . As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Feed Relevance , you'll drive the development of GenAI-powered recommendations, leveraging Reddit’s unique community landscape, rich conversational data, and dynamic engagement patterns. Your deep modeling expertise will directly shape the core architectures behind feed ranking, enabling breakthrough personalization for tens of millions of users. Responsibilities: Deliver on technical initiatives that have significant company-wide impact Set technical direction for the broader Relevance and Feeds teams at Reddit, able to identify opportunities and influence strategy across multiple orgs Work with management on goal setting, planning, and de-risking critical projects Mentor and grow Senior and Staff engineers Create a strong healthy engineering culture Qualifications: 10+ years of industry experience building systems for relevance driven products Subject matter expert in relevance, recommendation, and ML systems; able to solve complex problems in these domains that few others can Deep understanding of how to build sustainable software systems at a large scale engineering organization Experience in influencing organizations on technical direction/best practices Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, business & data teams to deliver great experiences. Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, reliability and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how people & machines inte