Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform : play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

We have open positions across Discovery Machine Learning as well as Trust and Safety.

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.

In our Discovery teams, we are applying Machine Learning to unlock impactful and new possibilities that drive user engagement, growth, understanding, and personalization.

We’re seeking technical, mission-driven Machine Learning Engineers to design and implement end-to-end ML solutions that make Discord safer and help our users navigate the myriad of wonderful content across the platform. If this excites you, keep reading!

What You'll Be Doing

• Build new and iterate on existing ML-driven products to foster creativity, discovery, and engagement on Discord.
• Use your technical expertise to design and build robust, high-scale, low latency content and user recommendation systems that power product features used by tens of millions of users every day.
• Work with cross-functional partner teams to create ML-driven roadmaps and make appropriate trade-off decisions on development velocity vs system complexity during each phase of the products.

What you should have

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $272,000 to $306,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are role and level-dependent. Within the range, individual pay is determined by skills, experience, and education. Please note that listed compensation reflects the base salary only, excluding equity and benefits.

Why Discord?

Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational, and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!

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