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Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Responsible AI

USRemoteFull-time$208k2026-10-01 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid · United StatesNo visa sponsorship

Core

Lead technical strategy and projects for Responsible AI, focusing on fairness, bias mitigation, and ethical safeguards for Pinterest's large-scale ML systems.

Role type

Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Tech Lead)

Builds

Production ML systems for recommendations, search, and content understanding with integrated Responsible AI tooling.

Domain

Internet / Machine Learning / Responsible AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Advanced ML methods, transformer-based models, LLMs, fairness interventions, bias mitigation, cross-team leadership, technical strategy definition

Preferred skills

Large-scale technical roadmap execution, backend and ML system architecture, high-traffic product deployment

Technologies

Transformer models, 2-tower architectures, LLMs

Responsibilities

Lead projects to identify and mitigate bias across ML applications; Collaborate with engineering teams to adopt Responsible AI practices; Mentor junior engineers; Define and drive technical strategy for Responsible AI

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities