Machine Learning Engineer New Grad 2025-2026, Quora

• Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
• A 2025 or Summer 2026 graduate with or pursuing a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field
• Strong understanding of mathematical foundations of Machine Learning algorithms
• Knowledge of Python or C++, or the ability to learn them quickly
• A passion for learning and always improving yourself and the team around you

Desirable

• Our small engineering team works on challenging problems every day
• We have a culture that's rooted in constantly learning and improving, and our engineers are encouraged to think big and experiment with new ideas
• Using continuous deployment, we quickly see our changes in the product and make fast iterations
• Our engineers focus on creating polished products and writing high quality code by designing APIs and abstractions that are extensible and maintainable
• Everyone on the engineering team has a huge impact on our product and our company
• As a member on the Ads ML team, you'll build deep learning and transformer based model architectures for ad candidate retrieval and ranking within our advertising platform
• Your work will involve developing sophisticated bidding algorithms, and creating scalable ML systems that optimize ad selection
• You'll also leverage large language models for brand safety detection and ad quality assessment, ensuring advertisers maintain brand integrity while users experience ads that meet the same quality standards as our core content
• Improve our existing Ads Recommendation systems using your expertise
• Identify new opportunities to apply Machine Learning to different parts of the Quora Ads Product
• Work with other engineers to implement algorithms and systems in an efficient way
• Take end-to-end ownership of Machine Learning systems -- from data pipelines and training, to realtime prediction engine