Remote Staff ML Engineer, Recommendation Systems

Quora; United States; Remote; USD 220,000 - 321,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Equity refreshers

Remote work reimbursement

Paid time off

Employee assistance programs

Job summary

Quora, a remote-first company, is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to shape the technical future of its recommendation ecosystem. You will own feed ranking, candidate generation, and model training, while expanding to notifications and digests.

This hands-on IC role emphasizes end-to-end ML systems, collaboration, and shipping velocity. The position requires 6+ years in ML software development, experience scaling recommender systems, and a strong foundation in Python or C++.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience in machine learning.
• 4+ years of professional experience building and optimizing Home Feed recommendation systems for social media and user-generated content platforms.
• Deep knowledge of the full recommender stack: candidate generation, retrieval, ranking, re-ranking, embeddings, and multi-objective optimization.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for Quora’s home feed recommendation systems.
• Lead the highest-impact projects across the recommender stack, from candidate generation and retrieval to ranking, re-ranking, and multi-objective optimization.
• Drive measurable improvements in user engagement and content quality through well-designed online experiments.
• Take end-to-end ownership of ML systems, including data pipelines, candidate extraction, feature engineering, model training, and production integration.
• 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.
• Mentor engineers and lead by example, raising the bar for code quality, modeling rigor and AI assisted dev velocity

Skills

ML software development

System design

Experimentation

Analytical thinking

Collaboration

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Python

C++

ML deployment

Job description

Quora, a remote-first company, is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to shape the technical future of its recommendation ecosystem. You will own feed ranking, candidate generation, and model training, while expanding to notifications and digests.

This hands-on IC role emphasizes end-to-end ML systems, collaboration, and shipping velocity. The position requires 6+ years in ML software development, experience scaling recommender systems, and a strong foundation in Python or C++.