Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Core
Lead the technical direction and build scalable content understanding systems using large multimodal models to power relevance and personalization across Pinterest's platform.
Role type
Staff Machine Learning Engineer / Technical Lead
Builds
Reusable embeddings, representations, semantic signals, and ML infrastructure for visual representation learning and LLM-based personalization.
Domain
Social media, multimodal AI, large language models (LLMs), visual representation learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Large-scale distributed training of generative models, distributed tooling for ML data pipelines, technical leadership, setting technical direction, building reusable ML infrastructure, VLMs, LLMs, sequence modeling, self-supervised learning, retrieval, distillation
Preferred skills
Publications at top ML conferences, open-source ML experience, user understanding, recommender systems
Technologies
Spark, Hive, MapReduce
Responsibilities
Set multi-quarter strategy for foundational ML capabilities, lead high-impact scientific and technical initiatives from research to productionization, partner with cross-functional teams to translate capabilities into product outcomes, establish rigorous practices for modeling and operational excellence, mentor engineers and scientists
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership
