Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Core
Set technical direction for Quora's home-feed recommendation systems, leading projects in candidate generation, retrieval, ranking, re-ranking, and multi-objective optimization to drive user engagement and content quality.
Role type
Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Recommendation Systems)
Builds
End-to-end ML systems for home-feed recommendations, notifications, and digest emails
Domain
Social media / User-generated content platforms
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Candidate generation, retrieval, ranking, re-ranking, embeddings, multi-objective optimization, data pipelines, feature engineering, model training, production integration, mathematical foundations of ML algorithms, leading large-scale ML projects
Preferred skills
Python or C++ code writing, deploying and running generative models at scale, notifications/email/digest recommendations, growth and lifecycle modeling, publications at RecSys/KDD/NeurIPS/ICML
Technologies
Python, C++
