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Reddit Machine Learning Engineer jobs

14 US ML engineer reqs, all remote, none below Senior — base posted at $217K–$303K.

$217k–$303k
base salary
64/100
Index score
US remote
Locations
Hiring
As of October 11, 2026

The Senior Machine Learning Engineer role

Reddit ML engineers build ads ranking and retrieval, feed and search relevance, content understanding and GenAI and agentic platforms across Consumer and Ads. Hiring is rolling and remote in the US through Greenhouse, and the open ML reqs today start at Senior (IC4).

A dedicated ML ladder in the feed’s job-profile metadata — Machine Learning Engineer 4 and 5 and Specialized MLE 6 (IC4–IC6) — plus an ML Systems Engineer track and ML managers, across ML & Search, Ads Product & Engineering and ML Foundations; no AI Engineer title (AI work such as the Agentic AI Platform sits under MLE titles).

Worth knowing: Fortune reported on March 23, 2026 that CEO Steve Huffman said ‘we will go heavy on new grads, because they’re so much more AI native’ — yet on October 11, 2026 Reddit’s board lists no new-grad or intern ML req and nothing below IC4.

Reddit ML engineer salary

$217k–$303k
Base salary
Not published
Total comp (est., with equity)

Base: $216,700–$303,400 posted on the Senior Machine Learning Engineer (IC4) req (first published Aug 14, 2025, updated Oct 6, 2026); the posting says it may span levels. All-in: no figure — levels.fyi’s Reddit MLE page shows an IC4 average of $517k on n=12 and a pooled 25th–75th of $459k–$750k that is thin, RSU-heavy and last updated May 2025.

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How Reddit scores

Compensation
8
Program maturity
6
Career capital
6
Momentum
5

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Reddit ML engineer: common questions

Reddit’s posted base band is $217k–$303k. Base: $216,700–$303,400 posted on the Senior Machine Learning Engineer (IC4) req (first published Aug 14, 2025, updated Oct 6, 2026); the posting says it may span levels. All-in: no figure — levels.fyi’s Reddit MLE page shows an IC4 average of $517k on n=12 and a pooled 25th–75th of $459k–$750k that is thin, RSU-heavy and last updated May 2025.
As of October 11, 2026: 14 US individual-contributor reqs titled Machine Learning Engineer or Machine Learning Systems Engineer live in Reddit’s Greenhouse feed (147 jobs) as of Oct 11, 2026 — one Senior MLE, one Senior MLSE, six Staff MLE, one Staff MLSE and five Senior Staff, none below IC4 — all listed Remote, United States, on ads ranking, retrieval and creative, Feed Relevance, ML Understanding and the GenAI platform. Check the live careers page for current reqs.
Not typically. Senior MLE (IC4): 3–5+ years building and operating production ML, Python, Java or Go, PyTorch or TensorFlow; no minimum degree stated, advanced degree preferred. No IC3 MLE req and no ML new-grad req is open.
Some are. Remote — every US ML req is listed ‘Remote – United States’ with no in-office days stated.

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