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Staff Data Scientist, Trust and Safety

San FranciscoFull-time$164,695–$164,6952026-10-07 → 2026-10-08
Hybrid

Core

Shape the future of people-facing and business-facing products by evolving the organization from reactive moderation into a proactive, metrics-driven operating system that predicts risk and keeps Pinterest safe.

Role type

Staff Data Scientist (Trust and Safety)

Builds

Proactive, metrics-driven operating system for risk prediction and content quality

Domain

Social media platform (Trust and Safety)

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

quantitative modeling, experimentation, algorithms, statistical measurement, product recommendation, forecasting, SQL, Python or R, data manipulation, high-dimensionality data handling (via careerplan.io/jobs/7987856-staff-data-scientist-trust-and-safety-at-pinterest)

Preferred skills

scientific rigor, skepticism, attention to detail, results-oriented output

Technologies

SQL, Python, R

Responsibilities

Develop deep understanding of the trust and safety platform, lead projects on trust and safety opportunities, design and productionize robust ML and evaluation frameworks, develop best practices for instrumentation and experimentation, build and prototype analysis pipelines, work cross-functionally to build and communicate key insights

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC