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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Research

San Francisco💼 Full-time💰 $189,308–$189,308🗓 2026-07-31 → 2026-09-25

Core

Conduct applied research in machine learning and multi-modal large language models to solve Pinterest problems in search, recommendation, reasoning, and planning.

Role type

Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Applied Research)

Builds

Intelligent data-driven models and research findings applied across Pinterest engineering teams.

Domain

Internet / Machine Learning / Multi-modal LLMs

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning, Information retrieval, Natural language processing, Graph analysis, Systems programming, Research methodology

Preferred skills

Reasoning capability, Computer vision, Reinforcement learning, User modeling, Recommender systems

Technologies

Java, C++, Python, Tensorflow, Pytorch, MLFlow

Responsibilities

Contribute to cutting-edge research in ML and LLMs; Collect, analyze, and synthesize findings from data; Write clean, efficient, and sustainable code; Solve moderately complex problems independently.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship

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