Engineering Manager, Machine Learning (Safety)

Job Overview

S. ) Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games.

Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.

Job Description

Discord's Safety ML team builds the machine learning systems that protect 200M+ users. The team's mission is to make Discord a place where people can build genuine friendships without exposure to harm, at a scale where manual review alone can never keep up.

Drive the technical vision and roadmap for Safety ML by collaborating with your team and partners across Trust & Safety, Product, Policy, Legal, and Data Science.

Own the end-to-end lifecycle of production safety models: defining new capabilities, measuring performance, and monitoring the operational health of systems that make millions of enforcement decisions per day.

Manage processes and leverage your technical expertise to continually raise the bar and ensure your team delivers extraordinary results. Partner with Trust & Safety on label quality, golden sets, and automating manual investigations.

Work with other Engineering Managers to continuously improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy . What you should have You have 5+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist, or Applied Scientist.

Key Responsibilities

• Discord's Safety ML team builds the machine learning systems that protect 200M+ users.
• The team's mission is to make Discord a place where people can build genuine friendships without exposure to harm, at a scale where manual review alone can never keep up.
• We're looking for a highly technical, hands-on, and mission-driven Engineering Manager to lead our Safety ML team.
• As the manager responsible for Safety ML, you will own the detection systems that sit between attackers and our users; real-time and batch models for content understanding, account integrity, and platform abuse.
• What You'll Be Doing Build and lead an exceptional team of highly-engaged ML engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact.
• Manage processes and leverage your technical expertise to continually raise the bar and ensure your team delivers extraordinary results.
• Work with other Engineering Managers to continuously improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy .
• You have 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and successfully managed a team of 5+ engineers.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• What you should have You have 5+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist, or Applied Scientist.
• You have 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and successfully managed a team of 5+ engineers.
• You have strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally.
• Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Benefits and Perks

• You keep up with the industry trends and continuously identify new technologies to leverage to solve technical problems The US base salary range for this full-time position is $272,000 to $340,000 + equity + benefits.
• Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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