Software Engineer New Grad, Machine Learning Platform - Quora

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 98,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Equity refreshers

Remote work reimbursement

Paid time off

Employee assistance programs

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Software Engineer (New Grad) for its ML team. This remote-first role can be performed from anywhere in the United States or Canada.

You will join a team building and maintaining a large-scale ML platform, enabling production-grade ML models and efficient deployment across a distributed stack. You will work at the intersection of ML, distributed systems, and GPU serving performance, shipping to production in early weeks with mentorship and strong

Qualifications

• 2025 or 2026 graduate with or pursuing a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Interest in large-scale distributed systems, infrastructure, and ML.

Responsibilities

• Help build and maintain the core infrastructure powering the ML platform for high availability, scalability, and performance.
• Develop distributed systems that serve ML models in production, from LRMs to LLMs.
• Work on GPU model serving, optimizing latency, throughput, and cost for larger models.
• Contribute to PyTorch-first standardization and ML ecosystem modernization.
• Improve ML developer velocity by building tooling for easier development, testing, and deployment of models.
• Modernize the feature store to accelerate feature delivery to production.
• Participate in on-call rotation to resolve production issues.

Skills

Python

Go

C++

Distributed systems

Machine learning

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Job description

[the company is a privately held, "remote-first" company. This position can be performed remotely from anywhere in Canada or the United States. Please visit careers.the company.com/eligible-countries for details regarding employment eligibility by country.]

About the company:the company’s mission is to grow the world's collective intelligence. To do so, we have two platforms:

the company: a global knowledge sharing platform with millions of monthly unique visitors, bringing people together to share insights on various topics and providing a unique platform to learn and connect with others.Poe: a cloud workspace where millions of users run multiple AI agents on shared context and tools. One subscription, every frontier model, and the collaboration layer that makes them work together.

Behind these products are passionate, collaborative, and high-performing global teams. We have a culture rooted in transparency, idea-sharing, and experimentation that allows us to celebrate success and grow together through meaningful work. Join us on this journey to create a positive impact and make a significant change in the world.

This role will be working on our the company product.

About the Team and Role:Machine Learning is central to the company's mission of growing the world's collective intelligence. We have 100+ Machine Learning models in production powering various product features. We use a variety of algorithms — everything from linear models to decision trees and deep neural networks. Our production models operate at a huge scale, serving hundreds of millions of people using the company every month.

Our team owns the company's ML platform and ranking infrastructure across four areas: serving reliability, ML engineer enablement and developer velocity, business impact, and cost efficiency. We want to empower all ML engineers at the company to be as impactful as they can be in solving different ML problems at scale.

As a Software Engineer (New Grad) on this team, you'll work at the intersection of machine learning, distributed systems, and GPU serving performance — and your work will have an enormous impact on the company's long-term success.

No previous ML infrastructure experience is required for this role. You'll be joining a team of senior and staff engineers, learning this stack from the people who built it, with a dedicated mentor and strong technical guidance — and you'll be shipping to production in your first few weeks.

Stack: Python, Go, C++, PyTorch, Kubernetes/EKS, NVIDIA Triton, Ray, AWS

Excited to see our MLP team's amazing work in action? Check out some of the incredible projects they've completed below!

• https://quoraengineering.the company.com/Migrating-from-x86-to-AWS-Graviton-A-Journey-in-Cost-Optimization-and-Performance

• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/the company-3x-faster-machine-learning-25-lower-costs-with-nvidia-triton-on-amazon-eks/

• https://quoraengineering.the company.com/Building-a-Service-Mesh-in-a-Hybrid-Environment

• https://quoraengineering.the company.com/Building-Embedding-Search-at-the company

• https://quoraengineering.the company.com/Feature-Engineering-at-the company-with-Alchemy

Responsibilities

Help build and maintain the core infrastructure that powers the company's ML platform, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performanceBuild and improve the distributed systems that serve our ML models in production, from Large Recommendation Models (LRMs) to Large Language Models (LLMs)Work on GPU model serving, optimizing latency, throughput, and cost to support larger and more capable modelsContribute to platform initiatives such as PyTorch-first standardization and ML ecosystem modernizationImprove ML developer velocity by building tooling that helps ML engineers develop, test, and deploy models more efficientlyModernize our feature store so ML engineers can get new features into production fasterParticipate in the team's on-call rotation, helping resolve production issues as you grow your knowledge and ownership of the platform

Minimum Requirements

Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during the company's "coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)A 2025 or 2026 graduate with or pursuing a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical fieldGenuine interest in large-scale distributed systems, infrastructure, and machine learningKnowledge of Python, Go, or C++, or the ability to learn them quicklyA passion for learning and always improving yourself and the team around you

Preferred Requirements

Previous software engineering experience via an internship, work experience, open-source contribution, or coding competitionCoursework or hands-on experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlowExposure to Kubernetes, Docker, or cloud technologies like AWSExperience with low-level performance work of any kind: profiling, benchmarking, optimizationPassion for the company's mission and goals

At the company, we value diversity and inclusivity and welcome individuals from all backgrounds, including marginalized or underrepresented groups in tech, to apply for our job openings. We encourage all candidates who share a passion for growing the world’s knowledge, even those who may not strictly meet all the preferred requirements, to apply, as we know that a diverse range of perspectives can have a significant impact on our products and our culture.

Additional Information:We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis. This role is a backfill for an existing vacancy.

• medical/dental/vision coverage
• equity refreshers
• remote work reimbursement
• paid time off
• employee assistance programs
• and more

Benefits are country-specific and may vary.

There are many factors that will determine the starting compensation, including but not limited to experience, location, education, and business needs.

US candidates only: For US based applicants, the salary range is $97,600 - $139,000 USD + equity + benefits.

Canada candidates only: For Toronto and Vancouver based applicants, the salary range is $125,320 - $142,783 CAD + equity + benefits. For all other locations in Canada, the salary range is $116,965 - $133,264 CAD + equity + benefits.

In equity-eligible countries, we currently also offer a flexible equity program where a portion of equity compensation may be taken as cash.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

AI technology may assist in sorting applications and recording interview notes, but all decisions are made by a member of our team.

To ensure a secure hiring process, all final candidates will undergo identity verification and a comprehensive background check prior to onboarding.

Job Applicant Privacy Notice: https://www.careers.the company.com/pages/the company-global-job-applicant-privacy-notice