PhD University Grad Machine Learning Engineer (USA)
Core
PhD-level Machine Learning Engineer building large-scale recommendation systems, search, and ranking models for Pinterest's discovery and ads products.
Role type
Senior IC Machine Learning Engineer (Research & Engineering)
Builds
Large-scale recommendation systems, search, ranking, and NLP models for discovery, ads, and notifications.
Domain
Social Media / Recommendation Systems / NLP / Graph Learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
PhD in CS/ML/NLP/Statistics, Machine Learning (ranking, CV, NLP, embeddings), Big Data (Hadoop/Spark), Systems languages (Java/C++/Python) or ML frameworks (TensorFlow/PyTorch), AI-native engineering, Critical thinking with AI tools
Preferred skills
Publications in ML/AI, Research experience, Interest in applying ML to real-world problems
Technologies
Hadoop, Spark, TensorFlow, PyTorch, MLFlow, Java, C++, Python
Responsibilities
Contribute to cutting-edge ML research, collect and synthesize data findings, write efficient code, design and test models for engagement prediction, build content recommendation systems, solve moderately complex problems independently
Seniority
PhD level, Senior IC
