Distinguished Engineer
Core
Define technical vision and lead foundational work for Homefeed, Search, and AI Assistant at the intersection of relevance, ranking, retrieval, and generative AI.
Role type
Distinguished Engineer (Strategy & Architecture)
Builds
Large-scale retrieval and ranking systems, LLM integrations, and discovery experiences for hundreds of millions of users.
Domain
Consumer discovery, search, recommendations, and generative AI
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Large-scale retrieval and ranking, representation learning, search systems, large language models and generative AI, multi-year architectural transformation, product intuition, technical strategy
Preferred skills
Consumer discovery products at global scale, AI assistants or agentic workflows
Technologies
Learning-to-rank, multi-task optimization, bandits, RL, embeddings, multi-modal models, dense/sparse retrieval, indexing, query understanding, RAG, agents, safety/guardrails
Responsibilities
Define long-term technical strategy and architecture; Drive multi-year roadmap for unifying signals and models; Lead design of large-scale retrieval and ranking systems; Architect LLM and foundation model integration; Set direction for experimentation and evaluation frameworks; Provide hands-on technical leadership on high-leverage projects; Partner with Product, Data Science, and Research; Represent Pinterest externally in talks and publications.
Seniority
Distinguished Engineer, cross-org strategy & hands-on leadership
