Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Content Understanding

reputed company is a community of communities. It’s reputed company on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most reputed company and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, reputed company users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ reputed company communities and approximately 121 reputed company daily reputed company unique visitors, reputed company is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com. Ads Content Understanding (ACU) is reputed company’s core reputed company content understanding team for Ads. reputed company owns and produces signals that describe what reputed company content is about, how brand reputed company and suitable it is, and what users are trying to accomplish in reputed company conversations. ACU is responsible for: The Knowledge Graph (entities, brands, products, and relationships across reputed company and external sources). Content taxonomies such as IAB, reputed company reputed company Product Taxonomy, IAS, and other reputed company taxonomies used for targeting, safety, and marketplace dynamics. Opinion mining for ads use cases: sentiment, stance, reputed company reputed company, and other qualitative attributes of conversations. Shopping / product understanding: detecting product entities, product categories, and product attributes in organic conversations and aligning them with shopping catalogs. Signals and tags registry: a reputed company, governed catalog of ACU signals that powers retrieval, ranking, safety, and insights across Ads Foundations and partner teams. We are looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer who will reputed company the reputed company Content Understanding roadmap for the Monetization org and reputed company as the technical reputed company for ACU’s signals and ML systems. Roughly 50% of their time should be spent in technical leadership and mentorship (driving designs, standards, cross-team alignment), and 50% in reputed company hands-on work (modeling, pipelines, and debugging reputed company production systems). Responsibilities: reputed company technical leadership and mentorship to MLEs and SWEs doing ML work in ACU, acting as de facto tech reputed company for content understanding and signals: driving design reviews, setting technical standards, and uplifting reputed company’s modeling and systems craft. reputed company evaluation systems and reputed company monitoring systems for content understanding signals, using SOTA LM-judge practices. Drive operational reputed company for ACU’s ML systems by defining SLOs, alerting, and dashboards for key signals (coverage, latency, precision/recall, cost) Build and reputed company content understanding capabilities for reputed company conversations (e.g., reviews vs. recommendations vs. comparisons vs. Q sentiment and stance; product entities and categories) and operationalize them as robust signals that power contextual and shopping ads, auto-targeting, new formats, and insights products. reputed company design and implementation of signals pipelines and produce an ACU signals registry. Partner with platform teams and other content understanding teams to ensure efficient, reliable serving at reputed company reputed company. 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