Pinterest · 10 hours ago
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Mining
California, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
5+ years expPinterest is a platform that inspires creativity and helps users plan meaningful memories. They are seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead a team in optimizing content acquisition and understanding through advanced machine learning techniques.
InternetSocial BookmarkingSocial MediaSocial NetworkSoftware
Responsibilities
Own the long‑term architecture, roadmap, and execution for source discovery, acquisition optimization, and content understanding
Lead design reviews, set engineering standards, and drive cross‑team alignment with Product, Data, and Infra
Mentor and uplevel MLEs through technical direction, pairing, and reviews
Train/fine‑tune LLMs and NLP models for classification, extraction, and instruction‑following; design eval loops and guardrails
Design features and frameworks for sharing features across models
Productionize models for large-scale inference; drive latency, reliability, and cost efficiency (quantization, distillation, caching)
Establish offline/online evaluation, gold sets, and automated regressions; run A/B and canary/shadow launches
Work with human and automated labeling sources to define data labeling standards
Partner on data strategy, labeling/weak supervision, and feedback loops to expand coverage and improve precision/recall
Define and meet SLOs for data quality, model performance, and serving reliability; lead incident playbooks and postmortems
Measure and drive downstream impact on revenue and engagement
Qualification
Required
5+ years building ML products end‑to‑end, including 2+ years as a tech lead driving multi‑quarter roadmaps and cross‑functional execution
Deep hands‑on experience with NLP/LLM training and inference (PyTorch, Python); strong grounding in evaluation, prompt/data design, and fine‑tuning
Proven track record shipping models at scale: feature/data pipelines, online serving, monitoring/observability, and cost/perf trade‑offs
Strong software engineering in Python with an eye for software engineering best practices
Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing partner teams
Masters or PhD in ML related studies
LLM efficiency techniques (LoRA/adapters, distillation, quantization, prompt caching) and cost control strategies
MLOps at scale with tools like Airflow, Spark/Presto, Triton, vLLM
Company
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.49BKey Investors
Elliott Management Corp.Brandtech VenturesSV Angel
2022-07-14Post Ipo Equity
2020-01-01Post Ipo Equity
2019-04-18IPO
Leadership Team
Bill Ready
Chief Executive Officer
Julia Brau Donnelly
Chief Financial Officer
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