Quora is a remote-first company focused on growing the world's collective intelligence through its platforms, including Poe, which integrates various AI language models. The AI Engineer role involves working on applied AI systems, collaborating with engineers to enhance the Poe product, and taking ownership of tasks from prototyping to deployment.
Responsibilities:
- Work with other engineers on a wide variety of AI engineering tasks, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflow optimization, etc to improve our existing applied AI systems
- Identify new opportunities to apply emerging AI capabilities to different parts of the Poe product
- Take end-to-end ownership of applied AI systems - from prototyping, data pipelines, model optimization/evaluation to reliable deployment at scale
Requirements:
- Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- A 2025 or Summer 2026 graduate with or pursuing a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field
- Strong engineering background (Python or TypeScript)
- Understanding of mathematical foundations of Machine Learning algorithms
- Experience of LLM applications or transformer models
- A passion for learning and always improving yourself and the team around you
- Previous software engineering experience via an internship, work experience or coding competition
- Previous hands-on experience working on LLM and prompt engineering
- Passion for Poe and Quora's mission and goals