Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Pinterest

Inclusive AI

$204.8-421.6k

Python
Java
C++
Hadoop
Spark
MapReduce
Hive
Scalding
Expert level
Remote in US
San Francisco Bay Area
Pinterest

Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas

Open for applications

Pinterest

Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas

1001+ employees

B2BLifestyleSocialDigital MediaSocial MediaAdvertising

Open for applications

$204.8-421.6k

Python
Java
C++
Hadoop
Spark
MapReduce
Hive
Scalding
Expert level
Remote in US
San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2BLifestyleSocialDigital MediaSocial MediaAdvertising

Company mission

To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.

Role

Who you are

  • Experience with state of the art ML Fairness techniques
  • Familiarity with state of the art ML approaches like transformers, self supervised pre-training, generative modeling, LLMs, etc
  • Experience with large scale data processing (e.g. Hive, Scalding, Spark, Hadoop, Map-reduce)
  • Hands-on experience building, deploying, and measuring ML Fairness at a very large scale. Successful candidates in this role need to be able to build bridge state of the art approaches to real world impact
  • 8+ years working experience in the engineering teams that build large-scale ML-driven user-facing products
  • 3+ years experience leading cross-team engineering efforts
  • Strong execution skills in project management
  • Strong communication skills to communicate strategy to senior management and outside of the company, externally
  • Masters or PhD in Comp Sci or related fields
  • Understanding of an object-oriented programming language (Java, C++, Python)

Desirable

  • Experience in working on, backend and ML systems for large-scale user-facing products, and have a good understanding of how they all work
  • Experience in closely collaborating with other engineering teams to ship ML technologies to improve fairness and reduce bias for recommendation, content understanding, and ranking systems at scale

What the job involves

  • You’ll have the opportunity to work on various innovative projects of new product experiences, build large-scale low-latency systems and state-of-the-art machine learning models, and deliver great impact to our pinners and business metrics
  • Lead projects that involve developing and deploying state of the art ML models in production systems across the company
  • Collaborate with other engineering teams (infra. user modeling, content understanding) to leverage their platforms and signals and work with them to collaborate on the adoption and evaluation of Inclusive AI and ML Fairness
  • Mentor junior engineers on the Inclusive AI team and across the company on Inclusive AI / ML Fairness and help them to built that into their workflow
  • Work with the team and senior leaders at the company to define and drive technical strategy in this area
  • Communicate externally about this work and with external groups including industry, advocacy, and government bodies regarding this work

Our take

Inspiration and ideas can pop into your head at any time, and with the growth of social media and networking, sharing these interests and gaining exposure has never been easier. Pinterest exists to display these moments visually, as a kind of digital pinboard allowing users to save and share digital images which have inspired them.

Pinterest's emphasis on visual discovery has differentiated it from competitors and created a more positive and fulfilling experience for its users. Pinterest in many ways provides a respite from the ceaseless negativity that plagues social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 450 million users in 2022, driven by uptake mostly outside of North America.

Pinterest has not been immune to woes affecting the global tech sector and made about 5% of its workforce redundant at the end of 2022 and the start of 2023. Having restructured to face a challenging climate, it is well-positioned to resume its growth, which has increased consistently year on year. Its immediate goals are to continue to grow its user base and expand the uptake of its short video product, which it aims to monetize.

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Company

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Founders

Worked as a Product Specialist at Google for 2 years before leaving to work on his own apps, which led to founding Pinterest


People progressing

Joined as Marketing Lead, promoted to Head of Growth Ops for English-speaking markets after 3 years. They've have since been promoted to Global Head of Editorial, a position they started in 2022.

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