AI/ML Tech Lead — Feed Personalization, Quora (Remote)
About the role
Quora is hiring a Machine Learning Tech Lead to own feed personalization, driving advances in their Home Feed recommendation systems. The Philippines is explicitly listed as an eligible country. Availability during Quora coordination hours (Mon-Fri 9am-3pm Pacific / 1-7am PHT) is required. You will serve as the technical leader for the distribution team, working on ranking systems, personalization, and ML abstractions at scale.
What you'll do
- Lead and improve ML recommendation systems for feed, notifications, and digest email using core ML and coding skills.
- Advance Quora's Home Feed ranking and personalization systems using the latest ML techniques.
- Take end-to-end ownership of ML systems: data pipelines, candidate extraction, feature engineering, model training, and production integration.
- Identify new opportunities to apply machine learning throughout the Quora product.
- Collaborate with and lead ML engineers to implement algorithms and systems efficiently.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software development experience in machine learning.
- 4+ years building and optimizing Home Feed recommendation systems for social media or user-generated content platforms.
- Good understanding of mathematical foundations of ML algorithms.
- Experience building end-to-end machine learning systems.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
- Preferred: Python or C++ coding experience; experience leading large-scale multi-engineer projects.
About Quora
Quora is a global knowledge-sharing platform with 300M+ monthly unique visitors, and the creator of Poe, an AI platform that lets users access and build with multiple AI models including GPT, Claude, and Gemini. Quora is remote-first and explicitly hires from the Philippines.
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