Manager II, Machine Learning Engineering

3 hours, 11 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

  • Build, mentor, and empower a team of 8-9 machine learning engineers, supporting growth, well-being, and career development.
  • Set the strategy, architecture, and roadmap for machine learning solutions powering Homefeed retrieval.
  • Own retrieval sources and candidate generators, including machine-learned approaches such as two-tower and conditional two-tower models.
  • Develop and improve ML optimization engines that dynamically trigger candidate generators.
  • Drive signal development and integration in the early recommendation funnel to improve growth and retention.
  • Evaluate and invest in forward-looking retrieval technologies, including generative retrieval approaches.
  • Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to align technical work with business goals and user needs.
  • Influence senior leadership by communicating team impact, managing change, and building trust across the organization.
  • Foster a culture of expertise, inclusivity, and psychological safety within the team.
  • Guide senior ICs and help shape future technical leaders across the organization.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience, including 1+ year managing high-performing ML teams of 10 or more engineers.
  • Deep expertise in large-scale production recommender, search, or ads systems.
  • Experience with embedding-based retrieval, experimentation, cost-efficiency, and product-facing machine learning solutions.
  • Proven record of hiring, empowering, and developing technical talent.
  • Strong cross-functional stakeholder management experience and comfort navigating ambiguity and organizational change.
  • Ability to balance ambitious technical investments with pragmatic business priorities.
  • Experience using Cursor, Copilot, Codex, or similar AI coding assistants for development, debugging, testing, and refactoring.
  • Familiarity with LLM-powered productivity tools for documentation search, experiment analysis, SQL/data exploration, and engineering workflow acceleration.
  • This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
  • The role requires in-office collaboration 1-2 times per quarter and can be based anywhere in the U.S.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $189,308 to $389,753 USD for U.S.-based applicants.
  • Eligible for equity compensation.
  • Flexible PinFlex working model with mostly remote work and occasional in-office collaboration.
  • Opportunity to work at a company with large-scale visibility and impact.
  • Access to Pinterest culture and benefits information for the role.
  • Equal opportunity hiring and consideration for qualified applicants.
  • Support for medical or religious accommodations during the application process.

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