Teams at Quora

Staff Data Scientist responsible for owning ambiguous, high-impact product and business problems; designing experiments; analyzing product data; developing analytical tools and frameworks; partnering with product, engineering, design, and leadership; and mentoring data scientists. The role requires advanced statistical expertise, strong product judgment, production programming experience, and the ability to translate complex analyses into strategic recommendations.

Develop and optimize large-scale advertising ranking models for CTR and CVR prediction, calibration, user representations, and sequence modeling. Own machine learning systems end to end, including data pipelines, feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, and maintenance. Collaborate with platform, product, data science, and engineering teams to run experiments and improve advertiser outcomes, revenue, and user relevance. Apply deep learning and recommendation techniques within production latency, reliability, and cost constraints.