Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Responsible AI
Core
Lead technical strategy and execution for Responsible AI initiatives, ensuring fairness, safety, and alignment in Pinterest's large-scale multi-modal ML systems.
Role type
Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Tech Lead)
Builds
Production-grade Responsible AI safeguards, fairness tooling, and evaluation frameworks for recommendations, search, and generative AI.
Domain
Social media, Recommender Systems, Generative AI, Fairness & Ethics
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Advanced ML methods (transformers, LLMs), Large-scale Search and Recommender Systems, Fairness interventions, Cross-team engineering leadership, Technical strategy definition, Mentorship
Preferred skills
Full-stack system architecture, Data pipelines, Model deployment workflows, OKR definition, Cross-functional orchestration
Technologies
Transformer-based 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 on Responsible AI, Define and drive technical strategy for Responsible AI
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
