Staff Data Scientist, Pinterest
Machine Learning Platform
$148-304.5k
+ Equity
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Open for applications
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$148-304.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- Seasoned professional with over 5 years of extensive hands-on experience in roles such as data scientist, applied scientist, software engineer, or ML engineer within the realm of machine learning
- A proven track record of designing and implementing highly intricate machine learning models, with a focus on optimizing performance on vast and complex datasets
- Deep expertise and proficiency in ML ops, exemplified by successful implementation of impactful solutions to streamline operations and enhance productivity for engineering teams at a broader organizational level
- Advanced skill set in crafting clean, efficient, and scalable code that adheres to industry best practices, coupled with a demonstrated ability to mentor and elevate team members to meet the highest standards of excellence
- Extensive knowledge and application of software development best practices, including expert utilization of version control systems like Git, to facilitate seamless collaboration, robust code management, and reproducibility across a large-scale data science environment
- Previously experience mentoring, coaching and up-leveling junior DS/MLEs to uphold a high bar for code quality and communication
- Comfort with, and experience in, driving the direction of the roadmap for the team
What the job involves
- We are seeking a talented and experienced Data Scientist to join our team and contribute to the enhancement and upleveling of our machine learning platform
- Join our team and help us revolutionize the way we train, test, tune, manage, and deploy advanced ML models, while collaborating with a diverse and highly skilled team of data scientists and engineers who are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of ML innovation
- The coding skills you bring to the table will give you the opportunity to mentor and guide other data scientists, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth within the team
- Drive the roadmap to decide which innovative solutions to optimize the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of the machine learning platform should be prioritized
- Collaborate with machine learning engineers to identify pain points and challenges in the development and deployment of ML models, cross-reference those pain points with the state-of-the-art literature, and generalize these improvements to be leveraged by all ML teams at Pinterest
- Analyze and evaluate the performance of existing machine learning models, identifying areas for improvement in preparation to work side-by-side with MLEs to make it part of their workflow
- Lead collaboration with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, align on project goals, and drive the implementation of new features and enhancements to the machine learning platform
- Help build a high-performance culture in team, where the team will bridge the gap between data science and ML engineering, leveraging data and prototyping solutions with production quality code
- Leverage our extensive and valuable metadata set to generate innovative suggestions and strategies, identifying efficient shortcuts to evaluate hypotheses and assess the potential of ideas
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 HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Ben Silbermann
(CEO)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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