Machine Learning Engineer II, Computer Vision Applied Science

About Pinterest

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

We’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of our mission and are ready to work with AI to augment our creativity and amplify our impact. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think.

What You’ll Do

• Prototype new model architectures for Pinterest VLMs.
• Work with finetuning open-source LLM models to improve their visual perception and tool using capabilities.
• Develop new evaluation benchmarks tailored to vision-centric capabilities such as fashion style recommendations.
• Read research papers, participate in group discussions, and help brainstorm our overall visual generative strategy at the company.
• Help with the collection of relevant visual training data for Pinterest Canvas, particularly for RLHF, targeted fine-tuning, etc.
• Publish and publicize your work via conferences, paper submissions, blog posts, etc.
• Mentor more junior researchers or research interns within the Pinterest Labs organization.

What We’re Looking For

• Research engineers and scientists with experience working with generative computer vision models, preferably various forms of visual encoders and LLMs.
• 2+ years of industry computer vision experience.
• M.S. or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related areas.
• Nice to have: publications at top ML conferences, experience using AI coding assistants for development, debugging, testing, and refactoring, familiarity with LLM-powered productivity tools for documentation search, experiment analysis, SQL/data exploration, and engineering workflow acceleration.

In-Office Requirement

This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

Relocation Statement

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

Our Commitment To Inclusion

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws.