Machine Learning Engineer, New Grad - Quora (Remote) (Remote)

Machine Learning Engineer, New Grad - Quora (Remote)

Company Overview

Quora’s mission is to grow the world's collective intelligence. To do so, we have two platforms:

• Quora: a global knowledge sharing platform with over 300M monthly unique visitors, bringing people together to share insights on various topics and providing a unique platform to learn and connect with others.

• Poe: a platform providing millions of global users with one place to chat, explore and build with a wide variety of AI language models (bots), including Claude-Opus-4.7, Nano-Banana-2, GPT-Image-2, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.5-Pro, and more. As AI capabilities rapidly advance, Poe provides a single platform to instantly integrate and utilize these new models.

Behind these products are passionate, collaborative, and high-performing global teams. We have a culture rooted in transparency, idea-sharing, and experimentation that allows us to celebrate success and grow together through meaningful work. Join us on this journey to create a positive impact and make a significant change in the world.

This role will be working on our Quora product.

Job Summary

Our small engineering team works on challenging problems every day. We have a culture that's rooted in constantly learning and improving, and our engineers are encouraged to think big and experiment with new ideas. Using continuous deployment, we quickly see our changes in the product and make fast iterations. Our engineers focus on creating polished products and writing high quality code by designing APIs and abstractions that are extensible and maintainable. Everyone on the engineering team has a huge impact on our product and our company.

Join our team to build and improve consumer-facing AI systems at the core of Quora's product experience! As a Machine Learning Engineer, you'll develop high-quality AI-powered content experiences and drive meaningful engagement through scalable ML solutions. This role emphasizes hands-on model development, experimentation, and productionization in close collaboration with cross-functional partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and iterate on consumer-facing AI features powered by large language models (LLMs) and related generative AI systems

• Collaborate with engineers across the AI engineering stack — prompt engineering, agentic workflow optimization, evaluation and more

• Run structured experiments (e.g., A/B tests, offline evaluations) to measure impact on engagement, quality, and trust metrics

• Partner closely with product and engineering to translate user needs into scalable AI-powered solutions

• Strengthen model reliability through monitoring, guardrails, quality analysis, and failure mode investigation

• Optimize the latency, cost, and scalability of production AI systems

Requirements / Qualifications

• Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours” (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)

• A 2025 or 2026 graduate with or pursuing a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field

• Strong understanding of mathematical foundations of Machine Learning algorithms

• Experience of LLM applications or transformer models

• Knowledge of Python or C++, or the ability to learn them quickly

• Strong command of written English, with the ability to evaluate tone, accuracy, clarity, and nuance in written content

• A passion for learning and always improving yourself and the team around you

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous software engineering experience via an internship, work experience or coding competition

• Hands-on experience building agents in a production environment at scale

• Passion for Quora's mission and goals

Location

Remote (United States or Canada)

Employment Type

Full Time

Salary & Benefits

• US based applicants: $107,360 - $152,900 USD + equity + benefits.

• Toronto and Vancouver based applicants: $137,852 - $157,061 CAD + equity + benefits.

• All other locations in Canada: $128,661 - $146,590 CAD + equity + benefits.

• Quora offers medical/dental/vision coverage, equity refreshers, remote work reimbursement, paid time off, employee assistance programs, and more.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.