Machine Learning Engineer II
Core
Develop vision-centric Large Language Models (VLMs) to perceive visual details and understand user aesthetics for Pinterest's visual assets.
Role type
Senior IC Machine Learning Engineer (Generative Vision/LLM)
Builds
Large-scale generative models, multimodal search, text-to-image models, and specialized evaluation benchmarks.
Domain
Computer Vision, Multimodal Large Language Models, Generative AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Generative computer vision, Visual encoders, LLMs, Fine-tuning open-source LLMs, RLHF, Research paper reading, Benchmark creation
Preferred skills
Publications at top ML conferences, AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, Codex), LLM-powered productivity tools
Technologies
Multimodal search, Text-to-image models, Knowledge graphs, Visual-text datasets
Responsibilities
Prototype new model architectures for Pinterest VLMs, Develop new evaluation benchmarks for vision-centric capabilities, Read research papers and participate in strategy discussions, Collect visual training data for RLHF and targeted fine-tuning, Publish work via conferences and blog posts
Seniority
Mid-Senior, hands-on IC
