Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Growth)
Core
Design and build 0→1 end-to-end ML solutions to help brand-new users find their place on Discord by connecting them to servers, people, and content.
Role type
Senior IC machine learning engineer (recommendation systems)
Builds
Recommendation systems for new-user onboarding and retention
Domain
Consumer social platform / Gaming
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Recommendation systems (retrieval and ranking), Embedding-based retrieval, Deep learning (transformers, multi-task learning), Python, PyTorch/JAX/TensorFlow, Feature pipelines, Model serving, Online experimentation
Preferred skills
Cold-start personalization, User representation models, Social-graph signals, Growth/engagement optimization, Large-scale distributed computing, Vector search
Responsibilities
Design, build, and scale recommendation systems from candidate generation to online serving; Solve cold-start personalization for users with little or no history; Build and deploy ML models to lift new-user retention; Collaborate cross-functionally to shape the Onboarding roadmap
