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About Quora:
Quora’s mission is to grow and share the world’s knowledge. To do so, we have two knowledge sharing products:
- Quora: a global knowledge sharing platform with over 400M 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-4, Claude 3, Gemini Pro, DALL-E 3 and more. 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.
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.
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. For more information on benefits, visit this link: https://www.careers.quora.com/benefits
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 $122,000 – $213,200 USD + equity + benefits.
- Canada candidates only: For Canada based applicants, the salary range is $147,530 – $220,985 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.
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Vacancies
1. Data Scientist – Monetization, Quora (Remote)
Location
Remote – Multiple Locations, United States, Canada, Ireland, & 13 other countries
Type
Full time
Department
Data
About the Team and Role:
The Data Team is highly empowered at Quora, helping navigate complexity and influencing product and company strategy directly. Quora’s outsized commitment to data is visible in everything we do, from our sophisticated experimentation processes to the backgrounds of our leaders. With this emphasis on data and empirics, we aim to balance rigor and pragmatism, searching for scrappy solutions in pursuit of our mission. In joining Quora’s strong data team, you’ll both benefit from and work to advance our culture of rational decision making.
As a member of our team, you’ll work closely with product managers, product designers, and engineers to devise appropriate measurements and metrics, design randomized controlled experiments, build visualizations, and tackle hard, open-ended problems that uncover usage patterns and opportunities for the company. Quora has a wide range of rich data, giving you ample room for exploration and creativity. Examples of some projects our data scientists have worked on include modeling our long-term growth, improving the relevance and personalization of the homepage feed, and exploratory analysis of factors driving question-asking behavior. For more about our work, see Quora’s Data blog at https://data.quora.com/.
As a data scientist on monetization you will work with our ads team to make sure Quora efficiently delivers high-quality ads to the right people at the right time. You will also work with the sales team to identify growth opportunities and demonstrate effectiveness of campaigns on Quora.
Responsibilities:
- Extract actionable insights from broad, open-ended questions
- Design and evaluate experiments to measure the impact of product changes
- Analyze data from across the product to uncover the root causes of metric movements
- Communicate results to cross-functional stakeholders to inform product decisions
- Develop tools to scale and automate analyses, improving productivity across the company
- Improve the work of other data scientists through mentorship and by bringing industry best practices to the team
Minimum Requirements:
- Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora’s “coordination hours” (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- 3+ years work experience in an analytical or quantitative role as a Data Scientist or similar title
- Extensive experience generating insights using statistical techniques (e.g. regression, hypothesis testing)
- Demonstrated ability to clearly explain data results to cross-functional teams
- Experience using a procedural programming language (e.g. Python, R) to manipulate, clean, and analyze data
- Ability to exercise judgment and combine quantitative skills with intuition and common sense
- Experience evangelizing best practices and process improvements on your team
Preferred Requirements:
- Experience working with large data sets and distributed computing tools (e.g. Redshift, Presto)
- Experience pushing code and navigating a complex codebase
- Active Quora and/or Poe user with curiosity about the product
2. Senior Product Manager – Ads, Quora (Remote)
Location
Remote – Multiple Locations, United States, Ireland, Canada, & 13 other countries
Type
Full time
Department
Product Management
About the Team and Role:
Product managers take on a vital and prominent role at Quora. They each own a significant portion of the product experience, and they are the source of guidance, enablement, and acceleration for their partners to ship successful products. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to drive company-level impact, influence overall company strategy, and interface regularly with product leadership and the executive team.
We’re seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead our ads team on our Quora product and drive the strategy and execution of Quora’s advertising products. The ads team is a tight, dedicated cross-functional group of engineers, machine learning specialists, data scientists and designers. The ads team is responsible for running and building the advertising platform for Quora. To bring it to life, they partner with many other teams – Sales, Operations, Policy, and organic Quora product teams. In this high-impact role, you’ll scale our advertising platform, enhance our offerings for advertisers, and ultimately grow Quora’s revenue while maintaining a great experience for our users.
Responsibilities:
- Own and drive the product strategy and roadmap for Quora’s advertising products
- Lead a tight-knit, high-performing team of product engineers, ML engineers, and data scientists
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Product Operations, and organic Quora product teams to align on priorities and execute effectively
- Conduct regular reviews with Quora product teams and company executives, driving strategic discussions and decision-making
- Define key metrics and objectives to measure the success of our ad products
- Analyze product performance using both quantitative and qualitative data to guide improvements
- Stay informed about industry trends and competitive landscape to inform product direction
- Manage project complexity and interdependencies in a fast-paced environment
Minimum Requirements:
- Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora’s “coordination hours” (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- 4+ years of product management experience
- 2+ years of experience focused on advertising products, preferably ads platforms
- Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision-making
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts to various stakeholders
- Experience working in lean, fast-paced environments
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
Preferred Requirements:
- Understanding of machine learning and its applications in advertising
- Experience working with sales teams and understanding advertiser needs
- MBA or advanced degree in a relevant field
3. Principal Product Manager – Creators, Poe (Remote)
Location
Remote – Multiple Locations, United States, Canada, Ireland, & 13 other countries
Type
Full time
Department
Product Management
About the Team and Role:
Our product managers excel at and are responsible for guiding, enabling, and accelerating the efforts of our designers, engineers, and data scientists to build and ship successful products. Even though we’ve experienced significant growth, we’re still a small team where each PM needs to own a significant portion of the product experience, so in this role, you’ll have the opportunity to drive company-level impact, influence overall company strategy, and interface regularly with product leadership and the executive team.
We’re looking for a Product Manager to join the Creators and Developers team on Poe, which is responsible for integrating large Gen AI model providers products onto the platform, building scalable API solutions for small Gen AI model providers, and building solutions for all of the creators on Poe. In this role, you’ll own Poe’s approach to building the best environment for developers to create new and innovative Gen AI products.
This role may require quarterly travel to San Francisco Bay Area for events such as Hackathons.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to an early stage team in a fast-paced, startup environment focused on developing a compelling platform for Gen AI creators and developers
- Manage project ambiguity, complexity and interdependencies in an organized and structured way and willing to do what it takes to make our product successful
- Research and understand the latest in Gen AI in order to inform product priorities
- Partner cross-functionally with engineering, design, product, sales, data science, and marketing teams to gather requirements for, define, build, release, and promote new products
- Define objectives, metrics, and key results to help guide, prioritize, and measure the success of the new products
- Analyze product performance to quantitative and qualitative feedback to guide new improvements
Minimum Requirements:
- Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora’s “coordination hours” (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- 4+ years combined experience in Product Management or Engineering
- Excellent communication skills and intuition for communication strategy at every level — within teams, within the company, to users, to press, and other audiences
- Experience building API products, developer ecosystems, and improving developer experiences
- Adept at using qualitative and quantitative data to drive decisions
Preferred Requirements:
- A passion for AI and emerging technologies
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience ideal
- 2+ years of Engineering experience before Product Management experience
4. Product Designer – Quora (Remote)
Location
Remote – Multiple Locations, United States, Canada, Ireland, & 13 other countries
Type
Full time
Department
Product Design
About the Team and Role:
Designing a global ecosystem for knowledge sharing and a platform for businesses to reach this audience requires a multidisciplinary approach. We’re building a diverse team with people of different backgrounds and experiences, empowered to shape strategy while moving quickly and learning as much as possible.
Designers at Quora are building a system to democratize access to all knowledge for the entire world. Our work leverages what we learn about psychological and social dynamics, communities and networks, and systems and policy design, in addition to more typical design skills. Product design directly impacts product strategy. We work on everything from ranking to UI, from internationalization to moderation systems; design decisions are validated through A/B testing and user studies alike, as we value rigor and empathy in equal measure. We pursue candor, holism, and awareness in our work.
Quora designers are strategically minded and have full ownership of their work. As a product designer, you’ll control the interface from conception to implementation, holding a central role on every product team. This ensures not only that we design the right solution but that we’re solving the right problem. In this role, you’ll be embedded in product teams focused on key user experiences of Quora.
Responsibilities:
- Identify and execute high-impact opportunities for your product area, design features that align with business goals, and clearly communicate decision rationale
- Partner with user researchers and data scientists to understand user needs, and collaborate with product managers to design scalable solutions
- Develop globally scalable designs across platforms in consultation with engineers, gather feedback through design critiques, and work with data scientists and researchers to measure impact
- Design and implement new features while contributing to our design system
- Work autonomously and pragmatically execute multiple projects simultaneously
Minimum Requirements:
- Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora’s “coordination hours” (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- 2 years of experience designing for multi-sided platforms or marketplaces
- Portfolio demonstrating digital design capabilities across web and native apps, showcasing effective interaction design and strong visual design
- Experience designing complex products in the B2C space resulting in clear, effective interactions that balance business and user goals
- Experience designing and shipping product features from scratch and iterating on existing features
- Ability to reason at a strategic level about a complex, social product and update perspective with new learnings
- Demonstrated track record of using data and user research to inform and evaluate design solutions
Preferred Requirements:
- Shipped high quality, intuitive products for a social platform
- Experience working effectively in A/B testing and metrics-driven environment
- Experience maintaining and improving a design system
- Shipped high quality mobile experiences for social media products
5. Staff Software Engineer – Developer Tools, Poe (Remote)
Location
Remote – Multiple Locations, United States, Canada, Ireland, & 13 other countries
Type
Full time
Department
Engineering
About the Team and Role:
Our small engineering team works on challenging problems every day. We have a culture that’s rooted in constantly learning and improving, and our engineers are encouraged to think big and experiment with new ideas. Using continuous deployment, we quickly see our changes in the product and make fast iterations. Our engineers focus on creating polished products and writing high quality code by designing APIs and abstractions that are extensible and maintainable. As an engineering team, Quora also highly values development velocity, and invests heavily in improvements to tools, abstractions, and frameworks to empower developers to move faster and achieve more with a lean team. Everyone on the engineering team has a huge impact on our product and our company.
The Platform team focuses on increasing the productivity of product developers (including product engineers, designers, and data scientists) by creating tools, frameworks, and abstractions that simplify their work. This team’s projects span a wide range, from developing libraries of reusable UI components and enhancing frontend debugging tools to accelerating code deployment and optimizing site performance. There are numerous interesting and impactful challenges in improving our frontend frameworks and systems within this modern architecture, encompassing both our AI product, Poe, and the core Quora platform.
In this role, you’ll be working with other members of the team across a variety of projects to improve efficiency of product developers, with a focus on supporting the Poe product. You’ll work closely with Poe product teams to understand pain points and build tools to increase their velocity. You’ll be working mainly with Python and modern Javascript frameworks like React, NextJS, GraphQL and Relay. This role is great for full-stack generalists who enjoy empowering other developers, eager to learn and execute in different parts of the stack.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain, and build tools that make Poe and Quora product developers (engineers, designers, data scientists) more efficient
- Contribute to building and maintaining reusable UI components used by developers
- Collaborate closely with product teams to identify pain points and understand developer workflow challenges
- Drive proposals and initiatives to address developer challenges and adopt new frameworks
Minimum Requirements:
- Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora’s “coordination hours” (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field, or a completion of coding bootcamp or equivalent work experience
- 4+ years of experience working with large scale codebases and systems, particularly web applications and frontend architecture
- 4+ years of experience building APIs that are used by large teams
- 2+ years of experience working with React and GraphQL
- Experience with NextJS, Relay or similar modern web framework
Preferred Requirements:
- Experience and strong interest in building tools to support other developers, or client-side performance. This may include contributions to open source projects
- Interest in working full-stack
- Passion for building reliable, performant consumer internet products
6. Staff Security Software Engineer (Remote)
About the Team and Role:
You will be a key member of the newly created Security Engineering Team, with a mission to keep Quora safe from security problems by building robust protections around our products, infrastructure and people. Our small engineering team works on challenging problems every day. We have a culture that’s rooted in constantly learning and improving, and our engineers are encouraged to think big and experiment with new ideas.
What We’re Looking For:
- Sweat The Right Details: you thrive in understanding the details but will also know to ruthlessly prioritize the critical issues.
- Right-Size The Solution: you recognize guidelines and framework do not always fit the problem and know how to adjust the solution for scalability not always at-scale.
- Ownership: you are outcome focused and can deftly navigate obstacles, decompose complexities, manage your time and can communicate your vision to peers and management.
An Ideal Candidate Would…
…be a capable software engineer while also spiking in at least one of the following domain expertise:
- Web/Browser Security: You have a deep understanding of web and product security while also being passionate about the state of browser security and privacy. You have an unhealthy obsession around idiosyncrasies of different browsers and user-agents (you stalk/participate in w3c forums), are well versed in various web authentication frameworks and are passionate about cryptography.
- Linux/System Security: You are well versed in AWS infrastructure security but also are passionate about scalability, reliability and operational rigor. Beyond that, you know that root does not mean root and are passionate about container security, POSIX Capabilities, SECCOMP and have a favorite flavor of LSM. In your spare time, you love playing around with OSQuery and eBPF.
Responsibilities:
- Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora’s “coordination hours” (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- Design, develop, and deploy applications to monitor cloud Infrastructure security and detect intrusions
- Deploy open-source tools or develop in-house solutions for OS hardening, access logging & analysis
- Build features or tools to ensure strong security in Quora product
- Provide security guidance to engineering teams and work with the product engineer on securing customer data in compliance with regulations such as GDPR and CCPA
- Drive the definition and implementation of security policies and monitor in conformance to the policies
- Conduct initial incident triage; determine scope, urgency, and potential impact of security incidents; lead and coordinate the incident response process
7. Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Poe (Remote)
Location
Remote – Multiple Locations, United States, Canada, Ireland, & 13 other countries
Type
Full time
Department
Engineering
About the Team and Role:
We are seeking a talented Staff ML Engineer to join us in building Poe, an exciting new platform at the forefront of AI. You will work at the cutting edge of technology to develop the Poe’s bot eco system with state of art machine learning algorithms. This includes architecting a scalable recommender system architecture, building performant and reliable NLP applications and collaborating with our product team to build various personalized AI-driven user features.
Poe has experienced awesome growth so far, and as a Staff MLE for Poe, you can build the future of bot ecosystem while gaining invaluable experience with complex problems. Your contributions will have a direct influence on the Poe’s roadmap. If you have a passion for search and retrieval, emerging LLM modeling techniques and recommender system at scale, this role offers an invaluable opportunity to spearhead progress.
Responsibilities:
- Be responsible for developing, designing, and maintaining cutting-edge applied LLM projects including but not limited to search result retrieval, recommender systems and multi-bot agents, ensuring smooth and engaging user experiences.
- Participate in a wide variety of NLP activities, including refining and optimizing prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, etc to improve the outcome of LLM.
- Continuously research and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in NLP and large language models, utilizing innovative techniques and methodologies to enhance our models.
- Take end to end ownership of large and scalable machine learning systems – from data pipelines, feature engineering, candidate extraction, model training, as well as integration into our production systems.
Minimum Requirements:
- Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora’s “coordination hours” (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- Demonstrated professional experience in software development and machine learning
- Proven track record of tech leading NLP/Search models to solve industry-scale problem
- 4+ years of experience writing Python or C++ code
- Previous experience tech leading complicated end to end machine learning systems
- Experience with leading large-scale multi-engineer projects
- BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field
Preferred Requirements:
- Flexible and positive team player with outstanding interpersonal skills
- 5+ years of professional experience working on natural language processing, language modeling, etc.
- Experience of transformer models and LLM applications
- Passion for Poe’s mission and goals
8. Staff Full Stack Software Engineer – Creators, Poe (Remote)
Location
Remote – Multiple Locations, United States, Canada, Ireland, & 13 other countries
Type
Full time
Department
Engineering
About the Team and Role:
We are seeking a talented Staff Software Engineer to contribute to Poe, our exciting AI product. You’ll have the thrilling opportunity to build cutting-edge features from scratch as a member of a team focused on improving the bot ecosystem and supporting bot creators on the platform.
Your role will involve planning and implementing new features, contributing to front-end and back-end development, and taking shared ownership of the cross-functional product development cycle. If you’re a team player with strong technical skills, passionate about AI, and eager to learn emerging technologies, we’d love to hear from you. With Poe’s rapid growth trajectory, this role offers an invaluable opportunity to make a significant impact.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (design, product, data science, QA, and engineering) to advise on product roadmap and create innovative features and user experiences for bot creators
- Rapidly prototype and implement new product features from ideation to production, using modern web technologies and best practices for performance and reliability
- Be a champion for both user experience and for sustainable, scalable code practices
- Collaborate closely with LLM providers to easily integrate new LLMs on Poe
Minimum Requirements:
- Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora’s “coordination hours” (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- 7+ years of experience working with large scale codebases and systems, particularly web applications
- 5+ years of experience working with React, Typescript, and GraphQL.
- 5+ years experience in Python or similar programming language
- A passion for learning and always improving yourself and the team around you
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Preferred Requirements:
- Passion for Poe and Quora’s products and mission
- Passionate about API design, the developer ecosystem and overall developer experience
- Passion for code quality and designing elegant systems
9. Staff Full Stack Software Engineer – Core Product, Poe (Remote)
Location
Remote – Multiple Locations, United States, Canada, Ireland, & 13 other countries
Type
Full time
Department
Engineering
About the Team and Role:
We are seeking a talented, self-starter staff software engineer to contribute core product features to Poe, a platform for making the power of state-of-the-art AI accessible to all people. In this role, you’ll have the thrilling opportunity to build cutting-edge features from scratch that will serve millions of people every day.
The Core Product team is an iterative and fast-moving team responsible for Poe’s core messaging and bot discovery experiences. For example, some recent launches include:
- a multi-bot chat feature (https://quorablog.quora.com/Multi-bot-chat-on-Poe) which allows you to compare answers from recommended bots with a single click and bring any bot to the conversation by @-mentioning it
- a Previews feature (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/poe-platform_were-excited-to-introduce-previews-a-new-activity-7216108217527934976-BHdi) which enables users to generate interactive websites within Poe
As a senior, full-stack member of the team, you will plan, develop, and polish new features that will improve the interaction experience with generative AI models and the bot ecosystem, and take shared ownership of the cross-functional product development cycle.
If you’re a team player with strong technical skills, a passion for AI, and an eagerness to learn emerging technologies, we’d love to hear from you. With Poe’s rapid growth trajectory, your work will have a significant impact on shaping how users interact with and learn from generative AI technology.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate closely with designers, product, data scientists, QA, and other engineers to implement and deliver interactive, intuitive AI-powered user experiences on Poe
- Lead a group of engineers to drive a project from start to finish
- Iterate quickly on projects, from ideation to implementation and launch, using the full web technology stack
- Be a champion for both user experience and for sustainable, scalable code practices
- Represent engineering in strategic planning and cross-functional prioritization sessions
- Coach top technical talent to help establish and grow the team and mentor new hires
Minimum Requirements:
- Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora’s “coordination hours” (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- 6+ years of full-time professional full-stack experience building user-facing consumer web products (excluding internships)
- 5+ years of professional experience with React, Typescript, and GraphQL
- 5+ years experience in Python or similar programming language
- Professional experience leveraging backend storage systems such as MySQL, MyRocks, Memcached, or Redis
Preferred Requirements:
- Passion for Poe and Quora’s products and mission
