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What this posting asks for

Level: Lead / staff — The title says "Staff".

Main responsibilities

• Providing technical leadership and mentorship to MLEs in the team: driving designs & their review, establishing best practices in analysis, modeling and engi…
• Working closely with team/org leadership developing technical strategy for content-based embeddings & relevance for Ads.
• Developing new or iterating on existing embedding models for advertising use cases, ranging from aggregation pipelines to two-tower architectures and sequenc…
• Working with local and 3rd-party LLMs/VLMs: extract representations, develop evaluation methodologies, prompt tune and fine-tune large models to build state-…
• Building data processing and inference pipelines for the models we develop.
• Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the various features we develop, end-to-end experimentation from internal benchmarks to downstream recommender sys…
• Ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of the ML systems by writing automated tests, monitoring performance, and implementing best practices …
• Participating in modeling and coding reviews: You will review work by other team members and provide feedback to ensure that it meets the team's standards fo…
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with the full lifecycle of designing, training, evaluating, testing, and deploying industry-level models.

Competencies an interviewer will look for

• Technical skill Core
  In the posting: “You will lead cross-functional ML projects end to end - from high-level business gap analysis to engineering execution.” · “Roughly 50% of your time will be spent on technical leadership and mentorship (driving strategy & designs, cross-functional collaboration, raising the qualit…” · “Providing technical leadership and mentorship to MLEs in the team: driving designs & their review, establishing best practices in analysis, modeling and engi…”
  Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off.
• Teamwork and collaboration Core
  In the posting: “You will lead cross-functional ML projects end to end - from high-level business gap analysis to engineering execution.” · “Roughly 50% of your time will be spent on technical leadership and mentorship (driving strategy & designs, cross-functional collaboration, raising the qualit…” · “Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.”
  Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled.
• Ownership and accountability Core
  In the posting: “You will lead cross-functional ML projects end to end - from high-level business gap analysis to engineering execution.” · “Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the various features we develop, end-to-end experimentation from internal benchmarks to downstream recommender sys…” · “We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.”
  Show it by: Takes a task from start to finish without being chased; Owns a mistake and what was changed after it.
• Leadership and mentoring Core
  In the posting: “Roughly 50% of your time will be spent on technical leadership and mentorship (driving strategy & designs, cross-functional collaboration, raising the qualit…” · “Providing technical leadership and mentorship to MLEs in the team: driving designs & their review, establishing best practices in analysis, modeling and engi…” · “Working closely with team/org leadership developing technical strategy for content-based embeddings & relevance for Ads.”
  Show it by: Describes setting direction or a standard others followed; Names someone they coached and what changed for them.
• Data and analysis Core
  In the posting: “We are a Machine Learning/Data heavy team with a focus on the following areas:” · “Contextual and Behavioral Relevance - Working with Product & Data Science, establishing definitions of what ads are relevant to users and the content we show…” · “Knowledge Graph Embeddings - Building representations for the Knowledge graph entities, e.g., intellectual properties/brands, to be used for high-precision t…”
  Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it.
• Attention to detail and quality Core
  In the posting: “Our team has the potential to highlight one of Reddit's biggest differentiators: genuinely curated, high-quality, extremely relevant, and daily updated organ…” · “Knowledge Graph Embeddings - Building representations for the Knowledge graph entities, e.g., intellectual properties/brands, to be used for high-precision t…” · “Roughly 50% of your time will be spent on technical leadership and mentorship (driving strategy & designs, cross-functional collaboration, raising the qualit…”
  Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used.
• Planning and organisation Core
  In the posting: “Family Planning Support” · “You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.”
  Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how.
• Adaptability and learning Core
  In the posting: “Location: Reddit has a flexible-first workforce.” · “Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off”
  Show it by: Describes learning something new quickly and using it; Shows a change of plan and how they adjusted.
• Problem solving Supporting
  In the posting: “Strong track record of working on content rich NLP/CV problems at scale, and using embeddings as a tool to solve them.”
  Show it by: Describes a real problem, the options considered and the one chosen; Shows how the cause was found, not just the fix.
• Communication Supporting
  In the posting: “Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to different audiences, both verbally and in writing.”
  Show it by: Adapts the message to the listener; Gives an example of explaining something clearly in writing or speech.
• Stakeholder management Supporting
  In the posting: “Demonstrated Staff-level technical leadership: mentoring engineers, driving standards and bar raising, leading complex cross-functional projects: from requir…”
  Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior.

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