Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Pinterest

Content Understanding

$166.7-342.8k

+ Equity

Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1 day a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)

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

$166.7-342.8k

+ Equity

Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1 day a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)

1001+ employees

B2BLifestyleSocialDigital MediaSocial MediaAdvertising

Company mission

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

Role

Who you are

  • MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences or related fields
  • 5+ years of industry experience in machine learning in industry and 1+ years of TL in use cases with large scale: content understanding, recommendation systems, information retrieval
  • Experience with Generative AI and LLM
  • Hands-on experience working with large scale ML modeling development and productization
  • Effective collaborator working with cross functional partners and an excellent communicator

What the job involves

  • As a staff machine learning engineer for the content understanding team, you will be responsible for developing horizontal knowledge graph and content understanding signals, from modeling to serving, and adopting them for various recommendation systems in Pinterest
  • Utilize state of the art machine learning, natural language processing, and multimodal modeling techniques to build content signals that power personalized product experience across Pinterest ecosystems (discovery, growth, ads etc)
  • Gather, examine, and integrate findings from data to build effective data-driven models
  • Partner with surface engineering teams and product team to discover opportunities to improve recommendation on Pinterest through content/user understanding
  • Drive team level tech strategy, and solve complex problems independently

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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9% employee growth in 12 months

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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