Quora

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ranking - Quora (Remote)

Kentucky, USA · Senior · full-time

Sponsorship not specified$190k-$275kDetected 28 days ago

AlgorithmsMachine LearningData EngineeringNLPA/B TestingCommunication

About the role

[ Quora is a privately held, "remote-first" company.
This position can be performed remotely from multiple countries around the world.
Behind these products are passionate, collaborative, and high-performing global teams.

a platform providing millions of global users with one place to chat, explore and build with a wide variety of AI language models (bots), including Claude-Opus-4.7, Nano-Banana-2, GPT-Image-2, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.5-Pro, and more.
Join us on this journey to create a positive impact and make a significant change in the world.

Good communication and interpersonal skills BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field Preferred

Benefits are country-specific and may vary.
For US based applicants, the salary range is $189,507 - $274,603 USD + equity + benefits.
For Toronto and Vancouver based applicants, the salary range is $248,526 - $288,100 CAD + equity + benefits.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Quora offers a wide range of benefits including medical/dental/vision coverage, equity res, remote work reimbursement, paid time off, employee assistance programs, and more.
There are many factors that will determine the starting pay, including but not limited to experience, location, education, and business needs.
For all other locations in Canada, the salary range is $231,958 - $268,893 CAD + equity + benefits.

Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries for details regarding employment eligibility by country.]
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.
As a remote-first company, our engineers have a high degree of flexibility and autonomy.
Everyone on the engineering team has a significant impact on our product and our company.
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.
We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

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