About the company
Discord is a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead an exceptional team of highly-engaged ML engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact.
- Drive the technical vision and roadmap for Safety ML.
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of production safety models.
- Manage processes and leverage your technical expertise to continually raise the bar.
- Partner with Trust & Safety on label quality, golden sets, and automating manual investigations.
- Work with other Engineering Managers to continuously improve the Engineering organization.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist, or Applied Scientist.
- 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and successfully managed a team of 5+ engineers.
- Hands-on depth in at least one of: abuse/fraud detection, content classification, behavioral modeling, graph-based modeling, or LLM-based classification systems.
- Strong communication skills.
- Thrive in ambiguous environments.
- First principles thinker.
- Proven record of shipping ML systems to production at scale.
- Passionate about coaching and leading other engineers.
- Keep up with industry trends.