Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Quora

Poe

$218-275.8k

For Canadian applicants: $179,997 - $284,600 CAD + Equity available in the US and Canada; Salary may vary by other locations

Python
C++
Mid and Senior level
Remote in Canada, Germany, Ireland, UK, US

More information about location

Quora

A place to share knowledge

Be an early applicant

Quora

A place to share knowledge

1001+ employees

B2CEducationInternet of ThingsLearningSocialMachine LearningProduct ManagementData Integration

Be an early applicant

$218-275.8k

For Canadian applicants: $179,997 - $284,600 CAD + Equity available in the US and Canada; Salary may vary by other locations

Python
C++
Mid and Senior level
Remote in Canada, Germany, Ireland, UK, US

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2CEducationInternet of ThingsLearningSocialMachine LearningProduct ManagementData Integration

Company mission

Quora's mission is to empower people to share and grow the world's knowledge.

Role

Who you are

  • If you have a passion for search and retrieval, emerging LLM modeling techniques and recommender system at scale, this role offers an invaluable opportunity to spearhead progress
  • Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
  • Demonstrated professional experience in software development and machine learning
  • Proven track record of tech leading NLP/Search models to solve industry-scale problem
  • 4+ years of experience writing Python or C++ code
  • Previous experience tech leading complicated end to end machine learning systems
  • Experience with leading large-scale multi-engineer projects
  • BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field

Desirable

  • Flexible and positive team player with outstanding interpersonal skills
  • 5+ years of professional experience working on natural language processing, language modeling, etc
  • Experience of transformer models and LLM applications
  • Passion for Poe's mission and goals

What the job involves

  • We are seeking a talented Senior ML Engineer to join us in building Poe, an exciting new platform at the forefront of AI
  • You will work at the cutting edge of technology to develop the Poe’s bot eco system with state of art machine learning algorithms
  • This includes architecting a scalable recommender system architecture, building performant and reliable NLP applications and collaborating with our product team to build various personalized AI-driven user features
  • Poe has experienced awesome growth so far, and as a Senior MLE for Poe, you can build the future of bot ecosystem while gaining invaluable experience with complex problems
  • Your contributions will have a direct influence on the Poe’s roadmap
  • Be responsible for developing, designing, and maintaining cutting-edge applied LLM projects including but not limited to search result retrieval, recommender systems and multi-bot agents, ensuring smooth and engaging user experiences
  • Participate in a wide variety of NLP activities, including refining and optimizing prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, etc to improve the outcome of LLM
  • Continuously research and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in NLP and large language models, utilizing innovative techniques and methodologies to enhance our models
  • Take end to end ownership of large and scalable machine learning systems - from data pipelines, feature engineering, candidate extraction, model training, as well as integration into our production systems

Our take

The vast majority of human knowledge is still not on the internet. Most of it is trapped in the form of experience in people's heads, or buried in books and papers. Quora is changing this.

For a decade now, Quora has been carefully cultivating an intelligent question and answer community; it’s quietly becoming a database of some of the most thoughtful and useful content on the web.

With its steadily increasing number of monthly users and a revenue stream funded by advertising and subscriptions, Quora is now worth over a billion dollars. It is further building on this success with the introduction of AI functionality, which allows subscribers to ask questions to bots powered by OpenAI and Anthropic models.

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Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Jan 2024

$75m

LATE VC

May 2019

$60m

SERIES E

Total funding: $361m

Company values

  • Mission First - place long-term, collective impact ahead of personal achievement
  • Drive - aim high and do whatever it takes to get things done
  • Agility - ready to adapt to a changing world
  • Awareness - rigorous in decisions and candid in communication
  • Pragmatism - stay grounded in the outcomes that truly matter for our mission

Company HQ

Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA

Leadership

Previously studied Computer Science at Caltech before working for Facebook, becoming CTO in 2006 until he co-founded Quora in 2009.

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