Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Quora

• Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
• 3+ years of professional experience working on recommendation models
• Good understanding of mathematical foundations of machine learning algorithms
• Previous experience building end-to-end machine learning systems
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• We encourage all candidates who share a passion for growing the world’s knowledge, even those who may not strictly meet all the preferred requirements, to apply, as we know that a diverse range of perspectives can have a significant impact on our products and our culture

Desirable

• We are looking for an experienced Machine Learning engineer to join our growing distribution team, working on recommendation systems such as feed, notifications, and Quora’s famous digest emails and A2A
• At Quora, we use machine learning in almost every part of the product and recommendation systems play an important role in connecting users with content
• As a ranking modeling expert, you will have a unique opportunity to have high impact by advancing our ranking model and by applying latest machine learning techniques
• You will also play a key role in developing methodologies that our other developers will build on top of
• Improve our existing machine learning ranking models using your core coding skills and ML knowledge
• Identify new opportunities to apply machine learning to different parts of the Quora product
• Work with other machine learning engineers to implement algorithms and systems efficiently
• Take end-to-end ownership of machine learning systems - data pipelines, candidate extraction, feature engineering, model training, as well as integration into our production systems