Staff Machine Learning Engineer
San Francisco, California, USA · Staff+ · full-time
Sponsorship not specified$189k-$390kDetected 48 days ago
PythonJavaMachine LearningData ScienceLLMsAgentic AIA/B TestingLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- 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.
- Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think.
- You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of large-scale recommendation and decisioning systems that power proactive advertiser and seller guidance across Ads Manager, Pinterest Business Assistant, Pinnacle, and sales productivity workflows.
- Build ML foundations for a unified context layer and context agent that transforms campaign, account, performance, market, workflow, and interaction data into reusable signals for agentic experiences.
- Own recommendation initiatives end-to-end, from problem framing, label and feedback design, feature pipelines, model development, and offline evaluation through production deployment, experimentation, and monitoring.
- Develop evaluation and feedback loops that measure recommendation quality, user trust, action rates, business impact, and failure modes, then use those learnings to continuously improve models and agent behavior.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Proven Staff-level technical leadership as a hands-on IC, setting technical direction and driving multi-quarter ML and systems roadmaps, including aligning stakeholders on priorities, trade-offs, and execution plans.
Skills
- It's Possible.
Compensation
- In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position.
Benefits
- The position is also eligible for equity.
- Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
Equal opportunity
- Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit.
- If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job
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