Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Core Engineering

About the role

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. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work.

What You’ll Do

• Build cutting edge technology using the latest advances in deep learning and machine learning to personalize Pinterest.
• Partner closely with teams across Pinterest to experiment and improve ML models for various product surfaces (Homefeed, Ads, Growth, Shopping, and Search).
• Gain knowledge of how ML works in different areas.
• Use data driven methods and leverage the unique properties of our data to improve candidate retrieval.
• Work in a high-impact environment with quick experimentation and product launches.
• Keep up with industry trends in recommendation systems.

What We’re Looking For

• 4+ years of industry experience applying machine learning methods (e.g., user modeling, personalization, recommender systems, search, ranking, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and graph representation learning).
• End-to-end hands-on experience with building data processing pipelines, large scale machine learning systems, and big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop/Spark).
• Degree in computer science, machine learning, statistics, or related field.
• Nice to have: Publications at top ML conferences, Experience using Cursor, Copilot, Codex, or similar 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, Expertise in scalable realtime systems that process stream data, Passion for applied ML and the Pinterest product.

Qualifications

• MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences, related field, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Pay

$189,721—$332,012 USD

Schedule

US based applicants only