Quora is hiring a
Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Quora's Poe team, working on an AI platform that includes GPT-4 and other language models. The role involves developing machine learning algorithms, building a bot ecosystem, and improving user experiences. The job is remote and the candidate should be available during specified coordination hours.

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

• Develop, design, and maintain cutting-edge applied LLM projects including but not limited to search result retrieval, recommender systems and multi-bot agents
• 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