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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, GenAI Platform
Reddit INC · 🇺🇸 Remote - United States · Remote
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 66 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 40 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Reddit INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles6 certified filings for “Machine Learning Engineer” (Software Developers) in NY: $216k–$260k, median $233k. Most were filed at wage level II (50%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 66 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 40 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Who We Are: The Machine Learning Platform team at Reddit is a high-impact team that owns the infrastructure that powers recommendations, content discovery, user and content quantification, while directly impacting other teams such as Growth, Ads, Feeds, and Core Machine Learning teams. What You’ll Do: As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will help define and lead the vision for Reddit’s large-scale GenAI Platform, shaping the strategy, architecture, and operating model that enable teams across the company to build, deploy, and scale generative AI products with confidence. Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the LLM Gateway, focusing on features like unified API endpoints for internal/externally hosted LLM, rate/token limit management, and intelligent failover mechanisms to boost uptime and reliability. • Lead and execute the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Reddit’s large-scale GenAI Platform. • Define the platform architecture and operating model that enable teams to build, deploy, and scale GenAI products reliably. • Drive the strategy for a unified LAG Gateway supporting internally and externally hosted LLMs through consistent APIs and abstractions. • Set the direction for core platform capabilities such as rate and token limit management, intelligent failover, and production resilience. • Shape Reddit’s approach to an enterprise-grade RAG system • Establish the strategic direction for agentic AI workflows and tool-use patterns across the platform. • Own the end-to-end platform strategy from concept through production adoption and long-term evolution. • Drive MLOps and LLMOps standards across CI/CD, testing, versioning, evaluation, and lifecycle management. • Define best practices for observability, monitoring, governance, and operational excellence across GenAI systems. • Partner across engineering, product, and leadership to align platform investments with company priorities and user needs. • Champion platform thinking with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and developer experience. • Influence technical direction across teams by turning emerging AI capabilities into a scalable platform strategy. Who You Might Be: • 10+ years of experience in ML Engineering, AI Platform Engineering, or Cloud AI Deployment roles. • Have a track record of leading technical strategy and delivering AI platforms in cloud-based production environments at scale. • Demonstrate strong execution by turning strategy into action, driving complex initiatives end to end, and consistently delivering high-quality platform outcomes. • Bring deep experience operating Kubernetes and other orchestration systems in large-scale production environments. • Deep experience with cloud-based technologies for supporting an ML platform, including tools like AWS, Google Cloud Storage, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and more • Proficiency with the common programming languages and frameworks of ML, such as Go, Python, etc. • Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders • Strong focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and developer experience. You are an undying advocate for platform users and have a deep intuition for the genAI product development lifecycle. • Strong kno