Quora · 21 hours ago
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads - Quora (Remote)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$190K/yr - $321K/yr
5+ years expQuora is a privately held, remote-first company focused on growing the world's collective intelligence. The Staff Machine Learning Engineer will optimize the advertising product at Quora by improving machine learning systems and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance ad targeting and bidding products.
CopywritingInformation ServicesInternetProduct DesignQ&A
Responsibilities
Improve our existing machine learning systems using your core coding skills and ML knowledge
Take end to end ownership of machine learning systems - from data pipelines, feature engineering, candidate extraction, model training, as well as integration into our production systems
Apply state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms at scale and serving for next-generation targeting and bidding products that directly impact the company’s top line metrics
Collaborate with ML platform and product engineers to build scalable and efficient machine learning systems in the production environment
Work with product and business teams on new innovative features for ad targeting and bidding to optimize advertisement performance
Identify new opportunities to apply machine learning to different parts of the Ads product to drive value for our users and advertisers
Qualification
Required
Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's coordination hours (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
5+ years of professional software development experience in machine learning
Previous experience working in Adtech, developing ad targeting/retrieval/recommender systems
Previous experience building large scale ranking/recommendation systems
Good understanding of mathematical foundations of machine learning algorithms
Highly proficient coding ability writing Python
BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field
Preferred
Experience with leading large-scale multi-engineer projects
Experience in productized reinforcement learning
Experience working with CTR, CVR, auto-bidding and auction systems
Effective communicator with strong leadership skills
Passion for Quora's mission and goals
Benefits
Medical/dental/vision coverage
Equity refreshers
Remote work reimbursement
Paid time off
Employee assistance programs
Company
Quora
Quora is a question-and-answer platform that allows users to ask and answer questions on a wide range of topics.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Quora has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (23)
2024 (15)
2023 (30)
2022 (29)
2021 (77)
2020 (44)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$301MKey Investors
Andreessen HorowitzTiger Global ManagementBenchmark
2024-01-09Series Unknown· $75M
2017-04-21Series D· $85M
2014-04-09Series C· $80M
Leadership Team
Adam D’Angelo
CEO
Courtland Showerman
Chief Financial Officer
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