Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation Systems - Quora (Remote)

📋 Description

• Set the technical direction for Quora's home feed recommendation systems
• Lead the highest-impact projects across the recommender stack, from candidate generation and
• Drive measurable improvements in user engagement and content quality through well-designed online
• Take end-to-end ownership of ML systems, including data pipelines, candidate extraction, feature
• Identify new opportunities to apply machine learning to different parts of the Quora product
• Partner with product, data science, and infrastructure teams to align on priorities and tradeoffs

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software development experience in machine learning
• 4+ years of professional experience building and optimizing Home Feed recommendation systems for
• Deep knowledge of the full recommender stack: candidate generation, retrieval, ranking, re-ranking
• Deep understanding of mathematical foundations of machine learning algorithms
• Experience leading large-scale ML projects end-to-end with measurable outcome
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

🎁 Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision coverage
• Equity refreshers
• Remote work reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Employee assistance programs