Job Details

Overview

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pinterest is a platform that inspires creativity and helps users discover new ideas. They are seeking a highly motivated Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead innovations in the Closeup Relevance team, focusing on enhancing personalized recommendations for users through advanced machine learning techniques.

Responsibilities

• You will be working in a cross-team environment, with a lot of talented ML engineers.
• You will work with state-of-the-art recommendation tech stack and have the opportunity to lead innovation and/or redesign of the full recommendation funnel.
• You will be a leader in ML innovations whose impact is felt across the organization
• Work closely with other engineering teams in Pinterest to bring superior Closeup experience to our users, such as ATG, ML Platform, Closeup Product, Content Quality and Core Infrastructure
• Develop an inspiring technical vision, and ambitious but grounded strategy for the team. Deliver outstanding results
• Provide visibility for senior leadership into the team's global impact.
• Partner with stakeholders to expand impact across the company, including product management and data scientists.
• Mentor and grow senior engineers on the team
• Build a culture of innovations and excellence

Skills

• 7+ years of professional experience in Machine Learning
• 5+ years of proposing and delivering innovations from original research or adopting cutting edge ML research
• 3+ years of experience in leading large-scale and mature ML recommendation systems teams, in an end-to-end fashion.
• Thrives in ambiguity, skilled in defining and exploring open ended problems
• Experience in setting and delivering technical directions at both team and organizational level
• Expertise in machine learning modeling and infrastructure
• Adept in statistics, backend, batch and realtime processing systems
• Ability to drive the team roadmap end to end
• A knack for product and impact on users of a consumer product.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in a relevant field such as computer science, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

• Eligible for equity

Company Overview

• Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is