New Grad ML Engineer at Quora - Remote US & Canada — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
Remote-First, but with a Timezone Anchor: Quora explicitly requires availability Mon–Fri, 9am–3pm Pacific Time (UTC-7/8). This is a hard constraint — roughly a 6-hour daily overlap window. Digital nomads in Western Europe (e.g., Lisbon, Portugal) would face afternoon/evening hours (5pm–11pm local), which is workable. Those in Southeast Asia (e.g., Bangkok, Thailand) would be looking at midnight to 6am PT overlap — effectively incompatible with this role.
Eligible Work Locations: Legally, you must be based in the US or Canada. This rules out long-term nomading outside North America unless you maintain a US/Canada legal address and tax residency. Short tourist stays abroad may be possible depending on your employer's remote policy, but you'd need to confirm this with Quora's HR directly.
Salary vs. Cost of Living (US range: $97,600–$139,000/yr):
- Medellín, Colombia: Very affordable (~$1,500–2,000/mo), but you'd need to be legally based in the US/CA, making this a vacation destination, not a base.
- Lisbon, Portugal: ~$2,500–3,500/mo comfortable living — salary is strong, but the timezone overlap is evening-heavy.
- Remote work reimbursement is included as a benefit, which could cover coworking memberships or home office equipment.
Bottom Line: This role suits nomads who stay within North America or are willing to align their day to Pacific Time. The remote-first culture, reimbursement perk, and generous salary make it appealing for US/Canada-based remote workers who want flexibility within those borders.
[Quora is a privately held, "remote-first" company. This position can be performed remotely from anywhere in Canada or the United States. Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries for details regarding employment eligibility by country.]
About Quora:
Quora's mission is to grow the world's collective intelligence. To do so, we have two platforms:
Quora: a global knowledge sharing platform with over 300M 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-5.6-Sol, Claude-Opus-5, Claude-Fable-5, Claude-Sonnet-5, Kimi-K3, and thousands of others. As AI capabilities rapidly advance, Poe provides a single platform to instantly integrate and utilize these new models.
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. Join us on this journey to create a positive impact and make a significant change in the world.
This role will be working on our Quora product.
About the Team and Role:
Machine Learning is central to Quora's mission of growing the world's collective intelligence. We have 100+ Machine Learning models in production powering various product features. We use a variety of algorithms — everything from linear models to decision trees and deep neural networks. Our production models operate at a huge scale, serving hundreds of millions of people using Quora every month.
Our team owns Quora's ML platform and ranking infrastructure across four areas: serving reliability, ML engineer enablement and developer velocity, business impact, and cost efficiency. We want to empower all ML engineers at Quora to be as impactful as they can be in solving different ML problems at scale.
As a Software Engineer (New Grad) on this team, you'll work at the intersection of Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, and GPU Serving performance — and your work will have an enormous impact on Quora's long-term success.
No previous ML infrastructure experience is required for this role. You'll be joining a team of senior and staff engineers, learning this stack from the people who built it, with a dedicated mentor and strong technical guidance — and you'll be shipping to production in your first few weeks.
Stack: Python, Go, C++, PyTorch, Kubernetes/EKS, NVIDIA Triton, Ray, AWS
Excited to see our MLP team's amazing work in action? Check out some of the incredible projects they've completed below! ✨
- Migrating from x86 to AWS Graviton: Cost Optimization and Performance
- 3x Faster Machine Learning, 25% Lower Costs with NVIDIA Triton on Amazon EKS
- Building a Service Mesh in a Hybrid Environment
- Building Embedding Search at Quora
- Feature Engineering at Quora with Alchemy
Responsibilities:
Help build and maintain the core infrastructure that powers Quora's ML platform, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance
Build and improve the distributed systems that serve our ML models in production, from Large Recommendation Models (LRM) to Large Language Models (LLM)
Work on GPU model serving, optimizing latency, throughput, and cost to support larger and more capable models
Contribute to platform initiatives such as PyTorch-first standardization and ML ecosystem modernization
Improve ML developer velocity by building tooling that helps ML engineers develop, test, and deploy models more efficiently
Modernize our feature store so ML engineers can get new features into production faster
Participate in the team's on-call rotation, helping resolve production issues as you grow your knowledge and ownership of the platform
Minimum Requirements:
Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's "coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
A 2025 or 2026 graduate with or pursuing a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field
Genuine interest in large-scale distributed systems, infrastructure, and machine learning
Knowledge of Python, Go or C++, or the ability to learn them quickly
A passion for learning and always improving yourself and the team around you
Preferred Requirements:
Previous software engineering experience via an internship, work experience, open-source contribution or coding competition
Coursework or hands-on experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
Exposure to Kubernetes, Docker, or cloud technologies like AWS
Experience with low-level performance work of any kind: profiling, benchmarking, optimization
Passion for Quora'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. We encourage all candidates who share a passion for growing the world's knowledge, even those who may not strictly meet all the preferred requirements, to apply, as we know that a diverse range of perspectives can have a significant impact on our products and our culture.
Additional Information:
We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis. This role is a backfill for an existing vacancy.
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 $97,600 - $139,000 USD + equity + benefits.
Canada candidates only: For Toronto and Vancouver based applicants, the salary range is $125,320 - $142,783 CAD + equity + benefits. For all other locations in Canada, the salary range is $116,965 - $133,264 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.
AI technology may assist in sorting applications and recording interview notes, but all decisions are made by a member of our team.
To ensure a secure hiring process, all final candidates will undergo identity verification and a comprehensive background check prior to onboarding.
Job Applicant Privacy Notice: https://www.careers.quora.com/pages/quora-global-job-applicant-privacy-notice
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