Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Consumer Revenue)

Location: San Francisco Bay Area or remote within the United States; Bay Area employees may work from the San Francisco office.

US base salary: $272,000–$340,000 per year, plus equity and benefits.

Company

Discord is a multiplatform gaming and social platform that helps people connect around games and shared interests while enabling developers to build and grow their businesses.

What you will do

• Build ranking, targeting, and recommendation systems across Shop, Nitro, Server Subscriptions, and Gifting.
• Apply deep learning and recommender-system architectures such as two-tower, transformer-based, and multi-task learning models.
• Build ML systems from 0→1 and take them to production at scale in ambiguous, early-stage environments.
• Lead cross-functional technical initiatives across multiple product verticals and align stakeholders.
• Translate experiment results and business insights into product and technical roadmap decisions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of applied machine learning experience, including a Ph.D. or Master's degree in a relevant field.
• Strong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
• Experience building internal ML platforms and tooling adopted by multiple product teams.
• Deep expertise in distributed training with technologies such as PyTorch on GPU, Ray, or Anyscale.
• Experience with large-scale data processing pipelines using technologies such as Chronon, Spark, or Flink.
• Strong product intuition, communication, collaboration, and cross-functional technical leadership skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with personalized marketing systems, lifecycle targeting, audience segmentation, lookalike modeling, and campaign optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with equity and benefits.
• Multiplatform, multigenerational, and multiplayer product environment focused on gaming and shared interests.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the interview process.

Hiring process

• Reasonable accommodations can be requested during interviews by notifying the recruiter.