Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Bidding & Pacing
San Francisco, California · Staff+
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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
- Design target ROAS and automatic bidding & pacing algorithms for ads.
- Work with product and sales teams to design and implement bidding strategies for new ad products.
- Collaborate with other teams to identify bidding and budgeting opportunities and capitalize on them.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Proven Staff-level technical leadership as an IC: driving technical direction and cross-team alignment without formal people management.
- Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality of your workflow, with a strong track record of validating and stress-testing AI-assisted outputs.
- Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, statistics, engineering, or
- Experience with Cursor, Copilot, Codex, or similar AI coding assistants for development, debugging, testing, and refactoring.
- Familiarity with LLM-powered productivity tools for documentation search, experiment analysis, SQL/data exploration, and engineering workflow acceleration.
Nice to have
- Direct experience specifically with bidding or pacing is a big plus.
Skills
- About Pinterest
- It's Possible.
Compensation
- $223k-$390k
Company info
- 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.
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