Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Safety)
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Salary range
- USD $220,000 – $275,000 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Senior / Staff IC
- Job family
- Engineering
- Posted
- 4 weeks ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $160k to $230k at an employer this size in the San Francisco Bay Area. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as P3 · asks for 4+ years · posts $220k to $275k base at a company of 500 to 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from Discord's posting.
Builds and deploys machine learning models for Discord's Safety ML team, covering real-time and batch systems for content understanding, risk evaluation, and account integrity. The team works with product, engineering, policy, legal, and Trust and Safety partners to ship ML solutions that keep users safe on a platform used mainly for gaming and hanging out.
What you'd do
- Analyze data to find risk patterns and inform how risk-detection models are designed.
- Create, refine, and test models that flag risky and unusual account or content behavior.
- Work with Trust and Safety partners to curate golden label sets at scale.
- Improve data labeling techniques used for model training.
- Deploy models to production, writing backend code for scalability and reliability, and monitor their performance.
- Document modeling approaches and systems and apply current ML best practices.
What it asks for
- At least four years in ML engineering or applied ML work.
- Strong coding skills in Python.
- Fluency in an ML framework such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
- Experience building performant ML systems at scale and driving projects from ideation to production.
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About Discord

The employer
About Discord
Social platforms · Gaming · San Francisco, CA · 501 to 1,000 people · Founded 2015
Voice, video and text chat platform organized around servers and communities.
Moderation, reported
Discord filed 529K moderation decisions for Discord Netherlands B.V. with the European Commission for May 2026.
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