Machine Learning Engineer - Ads, Quora (Remote)

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Requirements:

• Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's coordination hours (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time).
• 3+ years of professional software development experience in machine learning.
• Previous experience working in Adtech, developing ad targeting/retrieval/recommender systems.
• Previous experience building large scale ranking/recommendation systems.
• Good understanding of mathematical foundations of machine learning algorithms.
• Highly proficient coding ability writing Python, C++ or Golang code.
• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field.

Responsibilities:

• Improve our existing machine learning systems using your core coding skills and ML knowledge.
• Take end to end ownership of machine learning systems - from data pipelines, feature engineering, candidate extraction, model training, as well as integration into our production systems.
• Apply state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms at scale and serving for next-generation targeting and bidding products that directly impact the company’s top line metrics.
• Collaborate with ML platform and product engineers to build scalable and efficient machine learning systems in the production environment.
• Work with product and business teams on new innovative features for ad targeting and bidding to optimize advertisement performance.
• Identify new opportunities to apply machine learning to different parts of the Ads product to drive value for our users and advertisers.