Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Pinterest
Trust Engineering
$187-385k
+ Offers 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
$187-385k
+ Offers equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- Deep expertise building large scale ML systems at scale with modern frameworks
- Knowledge of (and a passion for) current trends and best practices in Trust and Safety
- Track record of delivering large, cross-functional projects across multiple organizations
- Track record for being a champion of Trust and Safety on social media
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally
- Strong hands on machine learning background including deep learning architectures, low-resource ML (zero shot, few shot), responsible AI and large scale deployment and measurement is required
- Trust and Safety background is highly recommended even though for the right candidate, this can be waived
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Principal Machine Learning Engineer, a senior technical visionary, to be the Principle Trust Technical Lead for the Trust Engineering team setting up overall technical strategy, unified technical architecture and defining a roadmap for industry leading methodology
- As the Principle Trust Tech Lead you'll be responsible for the technical direction, strategy and health of our Trust Engineering org
- You'll ensure that our technology can deliver on the business/product requirements necessary to keep Pinterest safe
- This means working with other leads to set and execute a long-term strategy for Trust, aligning the strategy with other clients where it makes sense and communicating to leadership our current status and path to having world-class Trust capabilities
- You'll also foster a healthy community where all Trust engineers can learn best practices, collaborate effectively and understand our technical direction
- Develop strong partnerships with product teams to understand and proactively address future technology needs and current developer pain points
- Champion and drive large-scale, cross-functional initiatives that improve the trust and safety of our platform
- Act as the ultimate “customer representative” for engineers on Trust including representing needs to leadership and prioritizing projects on the platform teams that ensure high quality capabilities and a world-class Pinner experience
- Scale your leadership through both direct mentorship and via best practices, processes, training and tools
- Ensure solid technical plans are in place for projects within Trust via direct review or delegation
- Be the technical point of contact for decisions that impact the whole Pinterest platform and for cross-functional partners like policy, operations and legal
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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