Manager II, Machine Learning-Search

1 hour, 25 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 major areas of the Pinterest search engine, including indexing, document ranking, query understanding, personalization, ML-based retrieval, shopping, videos, and infrastructure scalability.
  • Drive innovative applications of NLP, vision models, multimodal search, agentic search, query recommendations, and query-based module generation and ranking.
  • Collaborate closely with Search Product, Infrastructure, Research, and content signals teams to improve the search experience.
  • Deeply understand the Pinterest search product and define the team’s vision and direction.
  • Provide visibility to senior leadership on the team’s global impact and progress.
  • Partner with product management, data scientists, and design to expand the team’s impact across the company.
  • Mentor and grow managers, leaders, and engineers on the team.
  • Build and sustain a culture of excellence and deep technical expertise.

Requirements

  • Experience leading and working on large-scale production search, recommendation, or ads systems using state-of-the-art machine learning and big data technology.
  • Applied machine learning experience is strongly preferred.
  • Experience in recommendation systems, natural language processing, or computer vision is a plus.
  • Ability to drive the roadmap and direction of scalable, production-quality systems end to end.
  • Strong product sense and awareness of impact on users of a consumer product.
  • 3+ years of experience leading or managing a highly impactful ML-based engineering team of 5+ people.
  • 7+ years of software development experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
  • 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.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $189,308 to $389,753 USD for US-based applicants.
  • Eligibility for equity.
  • Flexible PinFlex working model with a hybrid approach rather than being always in the office.
  • Opportunity to work remotely, with #LI-REMOTE noted for the role.
  • No relocation assistance provided for this position.
  • Access to Pinterest’s culture and benefits information for the role.

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