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Lead the technical direction of Quora’s recommendation ecosystem, including feed retrieval, ranking, re-ranking, optimization, data pipelines, feature engineering, model training, and production integration. Drive measurable improvements through experimentation, apply generative AI, mentor engineers, and partner across product, data science, and infrastructure teams.

Develop and launch scalable full-stack Quora features using Python and React. Collaborate with designers, product managers, engineers, and data scientists to improve user engagement, moderation, creator experiences, and AI-powered content. Use experimentation and data to guide product iterations, contribute across the development lifecycle, and participate in on-call support for reliable service delivery.

Design, build, evaluate, and deploy LLM-powered agents and machine learning systems that improve Quora content quality and safety. The role involves developing agentic workflows, conducting offline and online evaluations, monitoring production performance, investigating failures, and improving accuracy, reliability, latency, and cost. New graduates will collaborate with experienced engineers and own projects from development through production.

Own and improve Quora’s second-phase ranking models for feed and digest experiences. Build end-to-end machine learning systems covering data pipelines, candidate extraction, feature engineering, model training, and production integration. Identify new product applications for machine learning, develop efficient algorithms with other ML engineers, and contribute methodologies for large-scale recommendation systems.

Build and maintain Quora’s machine learning platform and distributed model-serving infrastructure. Develop scalable systems for recommendation and language models, optimize GPU serving latency, throughput, and cost, improve ML tooling and feature stores, and contribute to platform modernization. The role includes production deployment, collaboration with senior engineers, mentoring, and participation in an on-call rotation.

Develop and optimize large-scale advertising ranking models for CTR and CVR prediction, calibration, user representations, and sequence modeling. Own machine learning systems end to end, including data pipelines, feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, and maintenance. Collaborate with platform, product, data science, and engineering teams to run experiments and improve advertiser outcomes, revenue, and user relevance. Apply deep learning and recommendation techniques within production latency, reliability, and cost constraints.

The Detection & CorpSec Engineer at Quora will build and maintain detection systems, strengthen corporate security controls, and respond to security incidents while collaborating with IT and advising non-technical teams.