Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads - Quora (Remote)

Quora is a privately held, remote-first company on a mission to grow the world's collective intelligence. The Staff Machine Learning Engineer will work on optimizing the advertising product at Quora, managing the entire Machine Learning Ads lifecycle, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance advertisement performance.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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