Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Consumer Revenue)

DiscordNorth AmericaLead8+ years experienceMachine Learning Engineering

The role

Discord is hiring a staff machine learning engineer for its Consumer Revenue ML team, which builds ranking, targeting and recommendation systems for Shop, Nitro, Server Subscriptions and Gifting. The position is US-based and can be remote.

What you will do

  • Build ranking, targeting and recommendation models for Discord's revenue products
  • Take ML systems from 0 to 1 and into production at scale
  • Lead cross-functional technical initiatives across several product areas
  • Turn experiment results into roadmap decisions

What they ask for

  • 8+ years in applied machine learning, including a PhD or Master's in a related field
  • Applied deep learning and recommender architectures such as two-tower, transformer-based and multi-task models
  • Strong Python and PyTorch, JAX or TensorFlow
  • Track record of building ML systems from scratch in ambiguous early-stage settings
  • Product and business sense, and strong communication
  • Based in the US

What they offer

  • Equity and benefits on top of base salary

This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Discord's careers page behind the apply button.

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