Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Safety)
Discord · San Francisco Bay Area
About this role
**Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Safety)** Discord is seeking an experienced **Senior Machine Learning Engineer** to join our **Safety ML** team. This role focuses on building and deploying machine learning models that help keep Discord users safe, including **real-time and batch systems** for content understanding, risk evaluation, and account integrity. You’ll work closely with partners across **Product, Engineering, Design, Policy, Legal, and Trust & Safety** to design and deliver effective ML solutions. This role reports to the **Senior Manager of Machine Learning, Safety**. **What you’ll be doing** - Analyze data to identify risk patterns and inform the design of machine learning models - Build, iterate on, and evaluate models that detect risk and anomalous behavior - Work with product, engineering, legal, and Trust & Safety partners to deliver effective ML solutions - Work with partner teams in Trust & Safety to curate golden label sets at scale and improve data labeling techniques for model training - Deploy models into production systems, writing backend code as needed to ensure scalability and reliability, and monitor performance - Document modeling approaches and systems, and apply current machine learning best practices **What you should have** - 4+ years of experience in ML engineering or applied ML roles - Strong coding skills in **Python** and fluency in ML frameworks such as **PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow** - Experience building performant machine learning systems at scale, and driving projects from ideation to production - Ability to think from first principles and solve complex problems with creativity, clear reasoning, and pragmatic solutions - A growth mindset: seeking feedback, reflecting on decisions, and continuously improving - Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a history of partnering across engineering, data science, legal, policy, and product teams - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field (Physics, Math, Operations Research, etc.) **Compensation (US)** - Base salary range: **$220,000 to $247,500** + equity + benefits - Note: the posted range reflects **base salary only** (equity/benefits not included) **Why Discord?** Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming—helping people deepen friendships around games and shared interests, and helping developers build and grow their businesses. Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. If you need accommodations, let your recruiter know. For details on how Discord collects and uses personal information during the application and recruitment process, please see the **Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy**: https://discord.com/terms/applicant-candidate-privacy-policy
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