Remote Ads ML Engineer — Ranking & Monetization

Quora; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Remote work reimbursement

Equity refreshers

Paid time off

Employee assistance programs

Job summary

Quora, a remote-first company, is seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to join the Ads ML team. You will own end-to-end development of ranking models, from data pipelines to deployment, driving improvements in CTR, CVR, calibration, and user relevance.

The role emphasizes ownership, experimentation, and impact on revenue and user experience. Flexible remote work across countries; strong collaboration with product and data science teams; you will ship production ML systems that affect

Qualifications

• Availability for meetings during coordination hours (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time).
• 4+ years of professional software development experience in machine learning.
• Hands-on experience developing and deploying ads ranking models at scale, including CTR or CVR prediction and calibration.
• Experience evaluating ranking models through offline analysis and online experiments.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools for coding, testing, debugging, or data analysis.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying deep learning models with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Strong Python programming skills and production ML code.
• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve ads ranking models, including prediction objectives, feature interactions, user-history modeling, and calibration.
• Take end to end ownership of machine learning systems - data pipelines, feature engineering, training-data construction, model evaluation, training, and production integration.
• Evaluate and apply advances in deep learning and recommendation modeling within latency, reliability, and cost constraints.
• Collaborate with ML platform and product engineers to build scalable ML systems in production.
• Partner with product, data science, and engineering teams to define ranking objectives and measure improvements in advertiser performance.

Skills

Machine Learning

Python

CTR/CVR prediction

Deep learning

Production ML

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/Engineering

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Quora, a remote-first company, is seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to join the Ads ML team. You will own end-to-end development of ranking models, from data pipelines to deployment, driving improvements in CTR, CVR, calibration, and user relevance.

The role emphasizes ownership, experimentation, and impact on revenue and user experience. Flexible remote work across countries; strong collaboration with product and data science teams; you will ship production ML systems that affect