Engineering Manager II, Machine Learning – User Understanding

1 hour, 35 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Pinterest

Pinterest

Pinterest is the world's first visual discovery engine, offering a vast dataset of ideas with over 200 billion recipes, home hacks, and style inspiration. With a mission to inspire everyone to create a life they love, Pinterest empowers its employees t...

Internet Software & Services
5K-10K
Founded 2010

Description

  • Lead and mentor a team of experienced machine learning engineers building user understanding models and systems.
  • Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to define strategy, set priorities, and integrate user insights into core systems and product features.
  • Drive experimentation and adoption of new user understanding models across Pinterest and measure end-to-end impact on key metrics.
  • Manage project execution, including roadmap planning, technical decision-making, risk mitigation, and stakeholder communication.
  • Provide technical leadership in user modeling and recommender systems by setting long-term vision and advancing the state of the art.
  • Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture.
  • Work across Discovery, Ads, and Growth products to support ML systems that affect hundreds of millions of users.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of industry experience in applied machine learning or a closely related role.
  • Experience developing large-scale machine learning systems for recommendation or ads systems.
  • 2+ years of people management experience leading engineering teams.
  • Demonstrated ML expertise with a track record of delivering impactful solutions.
  • Deep understanding of large-scale distributed systems.
  • Strong technical leadership with experience driving technical direction and system architecture.
  • Experience designing robust, scalable ML solutions.
  • Experience using Cursor, Copilot, Codex, or similar AI coding assistants for development, debugging, testing, and refactoring (preferred).
  • Familiarity with LLM-powered productivity tools for documentation search, experiment analysis, SQL/data exploration, and engineering workflow acceleration (preferred).
  • US-based applicants only.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $189,308 to $389,753 USD.
  • Eligible for equity.
  • Remote-friendly working model with PinFlex flexibility.
  • Relocation assistance is not available for this role.
  • Access to Pinterest culture and benefits information for the position.
  • Inclusive, equitable, and inspiring workplace environment.

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