Senior Machine Learning Engineer, GenAI Security

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The GenAI Security team within Reddit’s Security, Privacy, Assurance, and Corporate Engineering organization protects Reddit’s GenAI usage across employee tools, internal agents, and production user-facing systems. Our mission is to secure and protect Reddit’s AI traffic and GenAI adoption by default.

We are building zero-trust, defense-in-depth systems that verify identity, permissions, data access, and semantic intent across AI workflows. A core part of this work is developing practical, high-quality ML models that detect and prevent security risks such as prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, sensitive data exfiltration, unsafe model behavior, anomalous usage, and unauthorized agent actions.

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to lead model development for GenAI Security and help establish strong ML practices across SPACE. This role owns the full machine learning lifecycle: problem definition, data ETL, feature engineering, model training, model evaluation, deployment, experimentation, prediction, monitoring, debugging, and retraining.

What You’ll Do

• Build and improve security-focused ML models for Reddit’s GenAI traffic, including guardrail models, semantic classifiers, anomaly detection models, and other neural network based security signals.
• Own model development end to end: define the security problem, assemble and label datasets, build ETL pipelines, engineer features, train models, evaluate quality, deploy to production, monitor performance, and retrain from production feedback.
• Use modern deep learning architectures, including neural networks, transformers, sequence models, embeddings, and model distillation where they are the right practical fit.
• Design rigorous evaluation suites for adversarial examples, hard negatives, long-context inputs, structured payloads, tool calls, multi-turn workflows, and real production traffic.
• Improve model precision, recall, latency, cost, calibration, and operational reliability for high-impact production surfaces.
• Build repeatable MLOps workflows for SPACE, including training pipelines, model lineage, artifact management, holdout evaluation, dashboards, rollback paths, and retraining loops.
• Partner closely with ML Infrastructure, LLM Gateway, DevX, Ads, Answers, Safety, Privacy, Compliance, and other Security teams to bring security models into real produc