Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Safety)

$202,000 - $202,000/Yr

Discord - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Senior

Remote - San Francisco, CA

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About the position

Our mission is to build a platform that enables communities to flourish and where all members can safely find belonging. Machine learning is essential in building and maintaining this safe environment. Our Safety Machine Learning team deploys state-of-the-art detection systems to mitigate harmful behavior, illegal content, spam, and other adversarial abuse. We take ownership of the solutions we build from concept to deployment, working closely with product, engineering, and data science teams to drive large-scale impact. Our ML and safety systems continuously evolve to ensure our products are safe by default. We're seeking a technical, mission-driven Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design and implement end-to-end ML solutions that make Discord safer. If this excites you, keep reading!

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy ML systems to detect and prevent abuse, spam, and other malicious activities
• Develop reusable ML features by leveraging user behavior modeling, language processing, and social graph analysis
• Design, implement, and evaluate experiments to assess the impact of updated ML models
• Build scalable ML infrastructure, ensuring engineering excellence and long-term system reliability
• Collaborate closely with product management, engineering, and data science teams to identify high-impact opportunities and execute them effectively

Requirements

• Proven experience in machine learning and software engineering
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Python or Java
• Experience with ML frameworks and libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch)
• Familiarity with data processing and analysis tools
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for building safe online communities

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems
• Knowledge of natural language processing techniques
• Familiarity with social network analysis
• Experience in a safety or moderation-related role

Benefits

• Work from home option
• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• 401k plan
• Paid time off