Engineering Manager

About the company

• Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users, focused on gaming.
• The Safety ML team builds machine learning systems that protect 200M+ users.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of ML engineers through hiring, coaching, and instilling ownership.
• Drive the technical vision and roadmap for Safety ML in collaboration with Trust & Safety, Product, Policy, Legal, and Data Science.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of production safety models: defining capabilities, measuring performance, monitoring operational health.
• Partner with Trust & Safety on label quality, golden sets, and automating manual investigations.
• Continuously improve the Engineering organization and uphold workplace philosophy.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist, or Applied Scientist.
• 3+ years as an Engineering Manager managing a team of 5+ engineers.
• Hands-on depth in abuse/fraud detection, content classification, behavioral modeling, graph-based modeling, or LLM-based classification.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills.
• Proven record of shipping ML systems to production at scale.
• First-principles thinker comfortable with ambiguity.
• Passionate about coaching engineers but able to get hands-on with code.

Conditions

• San Francisco Bay Area (or Remote U.S.).
• Base salary range: $272,000 - $340,000 USD, plus equity and benefits.