Reddit
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Security
US
UTC-10 to UTC-5 $230k to $322k per year Full time
Lead or Staff
- Where you can live
- Remote - United States
- Working hours
- Overlap with UTC-10 to UTC-5
- Salary
- USD 230,000 to 322,000 per year
- Posted
- September 15, 2026
Summary from the posting
We are looking for a founding Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead the development, training, and optimization of models for AI security at Reddit. This is a strategic and hands-on individual contributor role, combining deep ownership of model architecture, training data, and experimentation with technical leadership across teams. You will help Reddit deliver stronger AI protections while preserving a high-quality product experience.
How You’ll Have Impact
- Select, adapt, fine-tune, evaluate, and deploy pretrained models and lightweight classifiers for Reddit-specific security problems.
This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on Reddit's own career page.