Software Engineer New Grad, Machine Learning Platform - Quora (Remote)

Summary

Quora is a remote-first company whose mission is to grow the world's collective intelligence through its knowledge-sharing platform. The Software Engineer (New Grad) will help build and maintain Quora's machine learning platform, distributed systems, and GPU model-serving infrastructure while improving reliability, scalability, performance, and ML developer velocity.

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 (LRMs) to Large Language Models (LLMs)
• 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

Skills

• • Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's "[coordination hours](https://quora.com/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
• • 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

Qualifications

Must Haves

• • Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's "[coordination hours](https://quora.com/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

Nice to Haves

• • 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

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Equity refreshers
• Remote work reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Employee assistance programs
• In equity-eligible countries, a flexible equity program where a portion of equity compensation may be taken as cash
• Remote work from anywhere in Canada or the United States
• A dedicated mentor and strong technical guidance