Pinterest · 4 hours ago
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Quality Signals
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$189K/yr - $390K/yrPinterest is a platform where millions of people find creative ideas and plan for memories. They are seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead modeling strategies and develop production models for content understanding, focusing on high-quality semantic signals that enhance product relevance and integrity.
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Responsibilities
Lead modeling strategy for content understanding (vision, NLP, multimodal), including architecture selection, training approach, and evaluation methodology
Design and ship production models that generate content signals such as embeddings and classifications used across multiple product surfaces
Own the full ML lifecycle: data/labeling strategy (human labels + weak supervision), training pipelines, offline evaluation, online experimentation, deployment, and monitoring/retraining
Partner with infra/platform teams to ensure scalable, reliable training/serving (latency, cost, observability, rollout safety)
Collaborate with signal-consuming teams (ranking, retrieval, integrity, ads) to define signal contracts, adoption patterns, and success metrics
Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring, and raising the quality bar for modeling and ML engineering practices
Qualification
Required
M.S/ PhD degree in Computer Science, Statistics or related field
Significant industry experience building software and ML pipelines/systems, including technical leadership (project/tech lead or equivalent)
Strong proficiency in Python and at least one ML stack such as PyTorch / TensorFlow, plus solid software engineering fundamentals
Proven experience training and deploying ML models to production, including model versioning, rollouts, monitoring, and retraining strategies
Deep hands-on experience in content understanding domains, such as: computer vision (classification, detection, representation learning), NLP (text classification, entity/topic modeling), multimodal / embedding models (e.g., transformer-based representations)
Experience working with large-scale datasets and distributed compute (e.g., Spark-like ecosystems, distributed training, GPU environments)
Strong applied skills in evaluation and experimentation: defining metrics, offline/online alignment, A/B testing, debugging regressions, and model quality analysis
Demonstrated ability to influence across teams and drive ambiguous problem areas to measurable outcomes
Benefits
Equity
Company
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Founded in 2010
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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