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Base Salary
$220k - $321k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for Quora’s home-feed recommendation systems.
- Lead projects across candidate generation, retrieval, ranking, re-ranking, and multi-objective optimization.
- Drive user-engagement and content-quality improvements through online experiments.
- Own ML systems end to end, including data pipelines, candidate extraction, feature engineering, model training, and production integration.
- Identify new machine-learning opportunities across the Quora product, including notifications and digest emails.
- Partner with product, data science, and infrastructure teams on priorities and tradeoffs.
- Mentor engineers and improve code quality, modeling rigor, and AI-assisted development velocity.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of professional software development experience in machine learning.
- At least 4 years of professional experience building and optimizing home-feed recommendation systems for social-media and user-generated-content platforms.
- Deep knowledge of candidate generation, retrieval, ranking, re-ranking, embeddings, and multi-objective optimization.
- Strong understanding of the mathematical foundations of machine-learning algorithms.
- Experience leading large-scale ML projects end to end with measurable outcomes.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science.
- Preferred: at least 6 years of experience writing Python or C++ code.
- Preferred: hands-on experience deploying and running generative models at scale.
- Preferred: experience with notifications, email or digest recommendations, or growth and lifecycle modeling.
- Preferred: publications at venues such as RecSys, KDD, NeurIPS, or ICML.
- Applicants must be available during Quora coordination hours, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pacific Time.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement available from multiple eligible countries.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Equity refreshers and a flexible equity program in eligible countries.
- Remote-work reimbursement.
- Paid time off and employee assistance programs.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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About Quora
Quora builds a global Q&A platform where people share and discover knowledge, and Poe, a multi-model AI chat app that lets users and creators build and monetize bots. Its business model includes advertising and subscriptions such as Quora+ and Poe. Privately held, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, it serves a worldwide audience with hundreds of millions of monthly visitors.