Machine Learning Engineer II

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📍 San Francisco, CA, US💰 USD 215K–286K

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About Pinterest:

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

Job Duties: Build cutting edge technology using the latest advances in deep learning and machine learning to personalize Pinterest. Partner closely with teams across Pinterest to experiment and improve ML models for various product surfaces (Homefeed, Related Product, and Search), while gaining knowledge of how ML works in different areas. Use data driven methods and leverage the unique properties of our data to improve content recommendation and ads delivery. Work in a high-impact environment with quick experimentation and product launches. Keep up with industry trends in recommendation systems. Leverage LLMs to enhance content understanding. Telecommuting and/or remote employment permitted.

Minimum Requirements: Ph.D. (or foreign equivalent) in Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline such as Biophysics and Quantitative Biology plus two (2) years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

Special Skill Requirements: (1) Developing and maintaining data pipelines for training datasets utilizing Hadoop and Spark (2 years); (2) Machine Learning Methods (user modeling, recommender system (2 years) ; (3) Analyzing user behavior signals and enforcement actions by applying natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision–based recommendation algorithms (1 year); (4) Leveraging LLM and CLIP models implemented with TensorFlow and PyTorch (1 year); (5) Designing and improving advertising algorithms using Python, Java and Go (2 years); (6) Developing multi-module market applications of large language models (LLMs) to align visual and language information (1 year).

Full-time telecommuting is an option.

Salary: $215,250.00 - $285,982.00 per annum

Reference #: L25-163643

This position is not available for relocation assistance.

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Know Your Rights and Pinterest Policy for more information regarding U.S. roles. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.

 

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