Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Core
Define technical direction for Quora's recommendation ecosystem, leading high-impact modeling bets and integrating LLMs/generative models for feed ranking and retrieval.
Role type
Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Recommendation Systems)
Builds
Quora home feed, notifications, digest emails, and underlying ML infrastructure tools.
Domain
Social media, user-generated content, recommendation systems, generative AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Recommender stack architecture, multi-objective optimization, LLM integration, end-to-end ML system ownership, large-scale project leadership
Preferred skills
Generative model deployment at scale, notifications/growth modeling, Python/C++ expertise, academic publications (RecSys, KDD, NeurIPS, ICML)
Technologies
Python, C++, LLMs, Generative Models
Responsibilities
Set technical direction for feed recommendation systems, lead highest-impact projects across the recommender stack, drive measurable improvements via online experiments, take end-to-end ownership of ML systems, identify new ML opportunities, mentor engineers
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with organization-wide scope
