Senior Data Scientist, Safety Enforcement

Posted

RedditRemote - United StatesRemotefull_timesenior

$190,800 – $267,100 USD

Tech Stack

Solid badges = required, outlined = preferred

Responsibilities

  • Lead a defined abuse or enforcement problem through model/rule development, thresholding, rollout, and monitoring.
  • Analyze large-scale behavioral, content, account, and network data to identify adversarial patterns and emerging threats.
  • Develop models, classifiers, scoring systems, and analytical prototypes using ML, statistical, or GenAI methods.
  • Define evaluation frameworks addressing precision, recall, calibration, fairness, user friction, and reviewer capacity.
  • Partner with Engineering and Safety ML to productionize detection approaches and establish launch guardrails and monitoring.

Soft Skills

Statistical AnalysisExperiment DesignCausal ModelingWritten CommunicationCross-Functional CollaborationMentoringTrust & SafetyCybersecurity

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Dental
  • Flexible PTO
  • Health Insurance
  • Learning Budget
  • Mental Health
  • Parental Leave
  • Remote Stipend
  • Vision

Culture

On-Call RotationCross-Functional TeamsMentorship ProgramMission-DrivenInclusive Hiring

Requirements

Required: Ph.D. with 4+ years OR Master’s degree with 8+ years of relevant industry experience in Data Science, Applied Science, Economics, or a related quantitative role
Regions: Us

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About Reddit
Industry: social media
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Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust, featuring over 100,000 active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors.

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Compensation
Base salary: $190,800 – $267,100 USD
Equity: Eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)