Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Discord is a multiplatform community focused on helping people deepen friendships around games and shared interests. The Staff Machine Learning Engineer will lead the Consumer Revenue ML team in building ranking, targeting, and recommendation systems across Shop, Nitro, Server Subscriptions, and Gifting, while driving org-wide technical initiatives and taking ML systems to production at scale.
Responsibilities
- Building the ranking, targeting, and recommendation systems that connect users to the right products, subscriptions, and content
Skills
- 8+ years of experience in applied Machine Learning, inclusive Ph.D. or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field
- Strong expertise in applied deep learning and mainstream RecSys model architecture (e.g. two-tower, transformer-based models, multi-task learning)
- Strong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow
- A track record of building ML systems from 0→1 in ambiguous, early-stage environments, and taking them to production at scale
- Strong product and business intuition, with the ability to translate experiment results into roadmap decisions
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills — able to lead cross-functional technical initiatives across multiple verticals and keep stakeholders educated and aligned
- The ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, energized by open-ended, technically challenging problems
- Built internal ML platform/tooling (shared data standards, targeting endpoints, recommender libraries) adopted by multiple product teams
- Familiarity with personalized marketing systems — lifecycle targeting, audience segmentation and lookalikes, campaign optimization
- Deep expertise in distributed training (e.g. PyTorch on GPU, Ray, Anyscale) and large-scale data processing pipelines (e.g. Chronon, Spark, Flink)
Benefits
- Equity
- Remote work option for US-based employees
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