Machine Learning Engineer, Quora

• Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
• Demonstrated professional experience in software development and machine learning
• 3+ years of professional experience working on natural language processing, language modeling, etc
• Solid understanding of mathematical foundations of machine learning algorithms
• Previous experience building end to end machine learning systems
• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field

Desirable

• We are looking for an experienced Machine Learning engineer to join our growing engineering team. At Quora, we use machine learning in almost every part of the product and natural language processing plays an important role
• As a natural language processing expert, you will help us leverage our rich textual data and help uncover new opportunities to apply machine learning to the Quora product
• You will also play a key role in developing tools and abstractions that our other developers would build on top of
• Improve our existing machine learning systems 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 in an efficient way
• Take end to end ownership of machine learning systems - from data pipelines, feature engineering, candidate extraction, model training, as well as integration into our production systems