Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Visual AI
Core
Lead the technical direction and build scalable content understanding systems using large multimodal models, VLMs, and LLMs to power relevance and personalization across Pinterest's platform.
Role type
Staff Machine Learning Engineer / Technical Lead
Builds
Reusable embeddings, semantic signals, ML infrastructure, and GenAI models for content understanding and recommendation
Domain
Internet / Computer Vision / Natural Language Processing / Multimodal Learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Large-scale distributed training of generative models, Visual representation learning, LLMs and sequence modeling, Technical leadership, Distributed ML data pipelines, Self-supervised learning, Retrieval and distillation techniques
Preferred skills
Publications at top ML conferences, Open-source ML experience, Experience with user understanding and recommender systems
Technologies
Spark, Hive, MapReduce, VLMs, LLMs
Responsibilities
Set multi-quarter strategy for foundational ML capabilities, Lead scientific and technical initiatives from research to productionization, Build reusable representations and ML infrastructure, Partner with cross-functional teams to translate capabilities into product outcomes, Establish rigorous practices for modeling and operational excellence
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership
