Engineering Manager, Search Relevance

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 97M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Search & Recommendation Relevance team focuses on delivering the most relevant results and recommendations when users search for anything on Reddit. Our systems and algorithms operate on the world's largest corpus of human conversation, showcasing the best answers and opinions from all across Reddit on any topics - whether its recommendations for the best hiking trail, travel advice, or reviews of the next product or restaurant.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to shape the future of Search products at Reddit. In this role, you will lead a team dedicated to advancing our current search systems as well as building and iterating on Reddit Answers, our next generation AI-driven search product.

If applying ML / AI in production to improve Reddit Search Relevance excites you, then you’ve found the right place.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Technical Expertise

• Lead the team that architects and designs search at Reddit.
• Apply Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence to retrieve relevant results with optimal ranking.
• Participate in the full development cycle: design, develop, QA, experiment, analyze, and deploy.
• Build and maintain a diverse team that can collaborate across disciplines to find technical solutions to complex challenges.

Hiring

• Reddit Search will grow quickly during your tenure at Reddit, and our engineering managers are directly responsible for scaling up their teams.
• Identify your team’s needs, write job descriptions, source, interview, and help close candidates.
• You will have the support of our incredible recruiting team to bring diverse and talented engineers into Reddit.
• Help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them.
• Constantly seek opportunities to push your engineers & managers outside their comfort zone and turn followers into leaders.

Organizational Alignment

• Serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team’s plans align with company goals.
• Communicate your team’s work and set expectations with cross-functional stakeholders.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams.
• 5+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or Software Engineer developing production code.
• Strong understanding of search, recommendation systems and ML / AI techniques.
• Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, results-oriented, biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
• Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems.
• Experience with vector search for semantic search or embedding lookup.
• Experience with lexical search retrieval at scale using SOLR/Elastic Search.
• Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit redditinc.com/careers.

The base pay range for this position is:

$230,000 - $322,000 USD.

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com.

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