Senior Machine Learning Engineer; Ranking Job San Diego area,California USA,Software Development

Position: Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Ranking, Quora)
Responsibilities

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
As a remote-first company, our engineers have a high degree of flexibility and autonomy. Everyone on the engineering team has a significant impact on our product and our company
We are looking for an experienced machine learning engineer to join our distribution team, working on recommendation systems such as feed, notifications, and Quora’s famous digest emails
At Quora, we use machine learning in almost every part of the product and recommendation systems play an important role in connecting users with content
As a ranking modeling expert, you will own and advance the second-phase ranking model behind feed and digest, one of the highest-leverage surfaces at Quora, by applying the latest machine learning techniques
You will also play a key role in developing methodologies that our other developers will build on top of
Improve our existing machine learning ranking models using your core coding skills and ML knowledge
Take end-to-end ownership of machine learning systems - data pipelines, candidate extraction, feature engineering, model training, as well as integration into our production systems
Identify new opportunities to apply machine learning to different parts of the Quora product
Work with other machine learning engineers to implement algorithms and systems efficiently

Requirements

Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora’s “coordination hours” (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
Previous experience building end-to-end machine learning systems
Good understanding of mathematical foundations of machine learning algorithms
Good communication and interpersonal skills
BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
3+ years of professional experience working on recommendation or ranking models
Passion for Quora’s mission and goals
Flexible and positive team player with outstanding interpersonal skills
5+ years of experience writing Python or C++ code
Experience with leading large-scale multi-engineer projects
Experience with generative recommendation systems
Experience with user behavior or user sequence modeling, transformers, or long sequence modeling applied to ranking