Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Quality Signals

1 hour, 37 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 modeling strategy for content understanding across vision, NLP, and multimodal use cases, including architecture selection, training approach, and evaluation methodology.
  • Design and ship production models that generate content signals such as embeddings and classifications used across multiple product surfaces.
  • Own the full ML lifecycle from data and labeling strategy through training, offline evaluation, online experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
  • Partner with infrastructure and platform teams to ensure scalable, reliable training and serving with attention to latency, cost, observability, and rollout safety.
  • Collaborate with teams consuming these signals, including ranking, retrieval, integrity, and ads, to define signal contracts, adoption patterns, and success metrics.
  • Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring, and raising the bar for modeling and ML engineering practices.

Requirements

  • M.S. or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field.
  • Significant industry experience building software and ML pipelines or systems, including technical leadership experience.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and at least one ML stack such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals.
  • Proven experience training and deploying ML models to production, including model versioning, rollouts, monitoring, and retraining strategies.
  • Deep hands-on experience in content understanding domains such as computer vision, NLP, or multimodal embedding models.
  • Experience working with large-scale datasets and distributed compute environments such as Spark-like systems, distributed training, or GPU environments.
  • Strong applied evaluation and experimentation skills, including metric definition, offline/online alignment, A/B testing, regression debugging, and model quality analysis.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence across teams and drive ambiguous problems to measurable outcomes.
  • Experience with Cursor, Copilot, Codex, or similar AI coding assistants for development, debugging, testing, or refactoring, preferred.
  • Familiarity with LLM-powered productivity tools for documentation search, experiment analysis, SQL/data exploration, or workflow acceleration, preferred.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $189,308 to $389,753 USD for US-based applicants.
  • Eligible for equity.
  • Flexible PinFlex working model with collaboration in the office 1-2 times per quarter.
  • Position can be situated anywhere in the country.
  • Information about Pinterest culture and benefits is available to candidates.
  • Equal opportunity employer with accommodation support available during the application process.

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