Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Pinterest

Content Engineering

$206.5-361k

+ Equity

Kafka
Hadoop
Spark
Flink
Senior and Expert level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

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Pinterest

Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas

Job no longer available

Pinterest

Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas

1001+ employees

B2BLifestyleSocialDigital MediaSocial MediaAdvertising

Job no longer available

$206.5-361k

+ Equity

Kafka
Hadoop
Spark
Flink
Senior and Expert level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BLifestyleSocialDigital MediaSocial MediaAdvertising

Company mission

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

Role

Who you are

  • Experience driving technical strategy at an organizational level
  • Expertise in content modeling at consumer internet scale
  • Strong ability to work cross-functionally and with partner engineering teams
  • Experience working with multiple stakeholders
  • Strong measurement and scalability experience
  • Strong ML knowledge and expertise
  • Strong Machine Learning at scale deployment experience (note this is different from having ML theoretical knowledge, which is a nice to have)
  • Hands-on experience with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop / Spark / Kafka / Flink) is a plus
  • Thought Leadership: Publication and/or conference speaking experience is a plus
  • Using GenAI for scaling ML development is a plus

What the job involves

  • We are looking for a Sr Staff Machine Learning Engineer to be the Technical Lead for the Content Quality organization for Trust Engineering who will build the overall technical strategy, unified technical architecture and define a roadmap for industry leading methodology
  • We are seeking strong hands on machine learning background including content modeling, signal lifecycle, and platforms used to enforce signal use with downstream use cases
  • You’ll be working with other leads to set and execute a long-term strategy for the team, aligning the strategy with other clients where it makes sense and communicating to leadership our current status and path to having world-class capabilities
  • You'll also foster a healthy community where all Content Quality engineers can learn best practices, collaborate effectively and understand our technical direction
  • Architect and develop systems, tools, and processes for computing and delivering signals capturing quality and trust aspects of content at Pinterest
  • Lead technical roadmap for ml flywheel - a suite of machine learning capabilities to improve performance and efficiency of signal engineering
  • Collaborate with Machine Learning engineers during conceptualization and productionization of signal
  • Work with infrastructure and platform teams to build the right set of tools and APIs to support signal hosting and delivery
  • Collaborate with signal consuming teams to architect signal adoption frameworks

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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