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Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Research Science

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.

At Pinterest Labs, you'll join a world-class team of research scientists and machine learning engineers to tackle cutting-edge challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. This role places you at the intersection of applied research and scalable infrastructure, focusing heavily on ML framework and efficiency.

You will conduct research that can be applied across Pinterest engineering teams, engaging in external collaborations and mentoring. Your research focus will specifically target ML efficiency and large-scale infrastructure challenges within high-impact areas such as: generative recommender systems, post-training, reinforcement learning, multi-modality representation learning, and graph neural networks.

What you’ll do:

Design, develop, maintain, and enhance advanced machine learning solutions across various key business areas.
Lead the technical strategy for optimizing and improving the efficiency of large-scale ML infrastructure.
Lead high-impact machine learning projects, overseeing priorities, deadlines, and deliverables while providing technical guidance.
Drive alignment and clarity on goals, outcomes, and timelines across teams.

What we’re looking for:

MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field degree.
10+ years of industry experience.
Experience in distributed system, ML frameworks (e.g. Pytorch), scaling laws.
Experience in research and in solving analytical problems.
Cross-functional collaborator and strong communicator.
Comfortable solving ambiguous problems and adapting to a dynamic environment.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1 time per quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

Relocation Statement:

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

US based applicants only

$212,964—$438,454 USD

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. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.

Machine Learning Applied Research ML Engineer PyTorch Distributed Systems Scaling Laws Generative Recommender Reinforcement Learning Graph Neural Networks Multi-modality ML Infrastructure Research Scientist Production ML

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