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Machine Learning Engineer (New Graduate, Quora)

Quora

Join Quora's Machine Learning team as a New Graduate Machine Learning Engineer. Work on impactful projects that enhance content quality and safety for millions of users. Collaborate with experienced engineers, take ownership of meaningful projects, and see the immediate impact of your work.

About Quora

Passion for Quora's mission and goals

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

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and deploy LLM-powered agents to detect and address spam, harassment, and other policy-violating content at Quora's scale.
  • Develop agentic workflows to automate complex tasks, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of our content and user moderation systems.
  • Collaborate with experienced engineers and take ownership of projects from early development through production, ensuring high-quality outcomes.

Requirements

  • No previous trust and safety experience is required. You'll learn from the engineers who built these systems

Able to start full-time in early 2027

  • Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
  • A passion for learning and always improving yourself and the team around you

Strong knowledge of Python

  • Coursework, research, or project experience with LLM applications or transformer models
  • Strong understanding of mathematical foundations of Machine Learning algorithms
  • B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field, completed or in progress
  • Previous software engineering experience via an internship, work experience, open-source contribution or coding competition
  • Hands-on experience building and evaluating LLM agents, in projects, research, internships, or production
  • Regular use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Codex
  • Genuine interest in content safety and quality

Preferred

  • Coursework or projects in natural language processing (NLP)

Pay

USD 107,360 - 152,900