Quora is hiring a
Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Quora's Poe team. The role involves developing machine learning algorithms and building the bot ecosystem on an AI platform called Poe. This position can be performed remotely from multiple countries around the world.

Requirements

• 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
• Proven track record of tech leading NLP/Search models to solve industry-scale problem
• 4+ years of experience writing Python or C++ code
• Previous experience tech leading complicated end to end machine learning systems
• Experience with leading large-scale multi-engineer projects
• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for developing, designing, and maintaining cutting-edge applied LLM projects including but not limited to search result retrieval, recommender systems and multi-bot agents, ensuring smooth and engaging user experiences
• Participate in a wide variety of NLP activities, including refining and optimizing prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, etc to improve the outcome of LLM
• Continuously research and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in NLP and large language models, utilizing innovative techniques and methodologies to enhance our models
• Take end to end ownership of large and scalable machine learning systems - from data pipelines, feature engineering, candidate extraction, model training, as well as integration into our production systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Flexible and positive team player with outstanding interpersonal skills
• 5+ years of professional experience working on natural language processing, language modeling, etc
• Experience of transformer models and LLM applications
• Passion for Poe's mission and goals