Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Poe (Remote)

Quora is a "remote-first" company. This position can be performed remotely from multiple countries around the world. Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries for details regarding employment eligibility by country.

About Quora:

Quora’s mission is to grow and share the world’s knowledge. To do so, we have two knowledge sharing products:

• Quora: a global knowledge sharing platform with over 400M 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 GPT-4, Claude 3, Gemini Pro, DALL-E 3 and more.

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.

About the Team and Role:

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 Poe’s bot ecosystem with state-of-the-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 the bot ecosystem while gaining invaluable experience with complex problems. Your contributions will have a direct influence on Poe’s roadmap. If you have a passion for search and retrieval, emerging LLM modeling techniques, and recommender systems at scale, this role offers an invaluable opportunity to spearhead progress.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, design, and maintain cutting-edge applied LLM projects including 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.

Minimum Requirements:

• 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 problems.

• 4+ years of experience writing Python or C++ code.

• Previous experience tech leading complicated end-to-end machine learning systems.

• Experience with transformer models and LLM applications.

• Experience with leading large-scale multi-engineer projects.

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Preferred Requirements:

• Flexible and positive team player with outstanding interpersonal skills.

• 5+ years of professional experience working on natural language processing, language modeling, etc.

• Passion for Poe's mission and goals.

At Quora, we value diversity and inclusivity and welcome individuals from all backgrounds, including marginalized or underrepresented groups in tech, to apply for our job openings.

Additional Information:

We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis.

Quora offers a wide range of benefits including medical/dental/vision coverage, equity refreshers, remote work reimbursement, paid time off, employee assistance programs, and more. Benefits are country-specific and may vary.

There are many factors that will determine the starting pay, including but not limited to experience, location, education, and business needs.

• US candidates only: For US based applicants, the salary range is $195,394 - $300,490 USD + equity + benefits.

• Canada candidates only: For Canada based applicants, the salary range is $236,283 - $311,462 CAD + equity + benefits.

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.

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