Director, Machine Learning Engineering – Content & User Understanding
Core
Define long-term ML/AI vision and strategy for content and user understanding models powering Pinterest's homefeed, search, shopping, and ads.
Role type
Director, Machine Learning Engineering (Content & User Understanding)
Builds
Company-wide foundational ML models and systems for content understanding and user behavior analysis.
Domain
Social Media / Recommendation Systems / Generative AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Large-scale ML system design, Vision-Language Models (VLM), Large Language Models (LLM), deep learning, technical strategy, people leadership (managing managers), cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
Experience in recommendation, ads, or search domains, setting long-term technical vision, executive communication
Technologies
VLM, LLM, deep learning frameworks
Responsibilities
Set multi-year technical strategy and investment roadmap for ML models, drive innovation in VLM and LLM approaches, manage and develop a team of managers and engineers, act as primary technical spokesperson to executive leadership, collaborate with product and engineering leaders to translate ML techniques into business impact
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical expertise
