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Machine Learning Engineer
Reddit INC · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, CA
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 roles1 certified filing for “Machine Learning Engineer” (Computer and Information Research Scientists) in CA: $300k–$300k, median $300k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% 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 . Job Duties: Design, build, and maintain scalable ML infrastructure to support notification relevance, targeting, ranking, and personalization across channels (e.g. push, email, in-app notifications) for millions of users. Architect and implement end-to-end ML pipelines for notifications, including data ingestion, feature computation, model training, evaluation, deployment, and online serving in production environments. Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, product managers, and engineers across teams to define requirements, align on priorities, and deliver end-to-end notification solutions. Lead design and implementation of experimentation frameworks (e.g. A/B testing, multi-armed bandits, or similar methods) to evaluate new notification models, ranking strategies, and targeting policies. Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, sharing best practices in machine learning engineering, distributed systems, and ML infrastructure design. Full-time telecommuting is an option. Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any field) or related quantitative discipline and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation. Special Skill Requirements: (1) designing, building, and iterating large-scale scalable software systems; (2) designing and building ML recommender systems at high scale; (3) Delivering large and complex systems with significant business impact; (4) Cross-functional collaboration on large-scale projects with complex dependencies across teams; (5) Object-oriented programming (Python, Golang, or Java); (6) Building ML models with PyTorch or TensorFlow; (7) API design and integration with REST, HTTP, Thrift, or gRPC; (8) Working with largescale key-value and NoSQL storage and caching systems (Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB); (9) Working with large-scale messaging and event-driven systems (Apache Kafka, AWS SQS, SNS, SES ); (10) Building workflows using orchestration systems (Kubeflow, Ray, Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions); (11) Working with large-scale analytics and data warehousing platforms (Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift); (12) Experience with observability, logging, tracing and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, AWS Cloudwatch; (13) Designing, running, and analyzing A/B experiments to measure and optimize system performance Benefits: • Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs • 401k with Employer Match • Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support • Family Planning Support • Gender-Affirming Care • Mental Health & Coaching Benefits • Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off • Generous Paid Parental Leave Submit a resume with references using the apply button on this posting or by email at: applicationsreview@reddit.com at Req.# 1016.125.2. Pay Transparency: 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 va