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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.\nWe are 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 will work closely with partners across product, engineering, design, policy, legal, and Trust and Safety to design and deliver effective ML solutions. This role reports to the Senior Manager of Machine Learning, Safety.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nAnalyze data to identify risk patterns and inform the design of machine learning models\nBuild, iterate on, and evaluate models that detect risk and anomalous behavior\nWork with product, engineering, legal, and Trust and Safety partners to deliver effective ML solutions\nWork with partner teams in Trust & Safety to curate golden label sets at scale and improve data labeling techniques for model training\nDeploy models into production systems, writing backend code as needed to ensure scalability and reliability, and monitor performance\nDocument modeling approaches and systems, and apply current machine learning best practices\nWhat you should have\n4+ years of experience in ML engineering or applied ML roles.\nStrong coding skills in Python and fluency in ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.\nExperience building performant machine learning systems at scale and have driven the execution of projects from ideation to production.\nAbility to think from first principles, approaching complex problems with creativity, clear reasoning, and pragmatic solutions.\nA growth mindset: seeking feedback, reflecting on decisions, and continuously improving.\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills, with a history of partnering effectively across engineering, data science, legal, policy, and product teams.\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field (Physics, Math, Operations Research, etc.\nThe base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. 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