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Director of Machine Learning, Safety & Mods
Machine Learning EngineerMachine Learning EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 501-1,000Since 2005H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn
Location
United States
Posted
103 days ago
Salary
$265.8K - $365.1K / year
Postgraduate Degree10 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Set the vision and strategy for applying ML to Trust & Safety, ensuring scalable, proactive protection against evolving abuse patterns.
• Lead and grow a high-performing Safety ML organization, including applied research, model development, productionization, and continuous improvement.
• Develop and deploy cutting-edge Safety ML systems (including fine-tuned LLMs and transformer models) that outperform state-of-the-art solutions in quality, latency, and efficiency.
• Partner with Trust & Safety, Product, Moderation, and AI/ML Platform teams to identify safety risks, emerging harm vectors, and ML opportunities that improve detection, enforcement, and user experience.
• Drive successful experimentation, evaluation, and model lifecycle management, ensuring high precision, recall, explainability, and policy alignment.
• Champion ethical and responsible AI practices in all Safety ML solutions.
• Track performance through metrics, research-based iteration, and alignment with Reddit’s safety policies and regulatory standards.
• Represent Safety ML leadership internally and externally — including conferences, publications, industry groups, and cross-company collaboration initiatives.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Machine Learning, AI, or applied research, with a strong background in Trust & Safety, abuse prevention, detection, or content integrity.
- 5+ years of experience leading multi-disciplinary ML teams (applied science, engineering, analytics) in a high-growth or high-impact environment.
- Proven track record of shipping ML systems at scale in production, ideally including transformer-based models and LLM fine-tuning.
- Depth in NLP, content understanding, detection systems, supervised and weak-supervision techniques.
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with ability to influence executives and foster alignment across Safety, Product, and Engineering.
- Thought leadership in responsible AI, safety ML research, or safety measurement frameworks.
- Entrepreneurial mindset — experience founding or scaling a product or ML org.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) program with employer match
- generous time off for vacation
- parental leave
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