Senior Data Scientist, Safety Enforcement

Reddit

Remote regions

United States

Salary range

$190,800–$267,100/yr

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Role Overview:

  • Own one or more defined enforcement problem areas and translate ambiguous abuse risks into measurable signals, labels, and detection approaches.
  • Work closely with Product, Engineering, ML, Policy, Safety Operations, and Threat Intelligence partners.

What You'll Do:

  • Build and evaluate models, classifiers, scoring systems, and rules using statistical, ML, or GenAI methods.
  • Define decision-quality standards including precision, recall, calibration, robustness, and fairness.
  • Design staged rollouts and experiments to test whether interventions reduce harm.

Who You Are:

  • You have a Ph.D. with 4+ years or a Master's with 8+ years in a quantitative role.
  • You have applied experience in safety, enforcement engineering, fraud, or adversarial domains.
  • You excel in SQL and Python and can communicate complex technical concepts clearly.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive healthcare, income replacement, 401k with employer match, and global benefit programs.
  • Flexible vacation, paid volunteer time off, and generous paid parental leave.

Reddit

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust, where users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, it is one of the internet's largest sources of information.

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