Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Homefeed Candidate Generation Team

Creating a life you love also means finding a career that celebrates the unique perspectives and experiences that you bring. As you read through the expectations of the position, consider how your skills and experiences may complement the responsibilities of the role. We encourage you to think through your relevant and transferable skills from prior experiences. Our new progressive work model is... called PinFlex, a term that’s uniquely Pinterest to describe our flexible approach to living and working. Visit our PinFlex landing page to learn more. Pinterest helps Pinners discover and do what they love. Homefeed is the surface every Pinner sees when they open the app and forms the front-and-center of the Pinterest experience for 400M+ pinners every month. The Homefeed Candidate Generation team’s mission is to recommend inspiring & engaging pins for all our Pinners. We are looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer who can drive the team’s technical direction and also be hands-on in developing our retrieval models and lightweight ranking layer. You'll have the opportunity to work cross-team on various innovative projects of new product experiences, build large-scale low-latency systems and state-of-the-art machine learning models, and deliver great impact to our Pinners and business metrics. What you'll do: • Improve relevance and the user experience on Homefeed • Help set the technical direction and works hands-on for retrieval on Homefeed • Work on state-of-the-art large-scale applied machine learning projects • Improve the efficiency and reliability of large-scale data processing and ML inference pipeline • Improve our engineering systems to improve the latency, capacity, stability and reduce infra cost What we're looking for: • Languages: Java, Python • Machine Learning: PyTorch or Tensorflow • Big data processing: Spark, Hive, MapReduce, SQL • 5+ years experience with recommender systems or user modeling, implementing production ML systems at scale • 5+ years experience with large scale distributed backend service Desired skills: • Experience in working in Deep learning and Generative AI models • Experience in closely collaborating with product managers / designers to ship ML-driven user-facing products This position is/is not eligible for relocation assistance. 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 $159,000—$278,000 USD Our Commitment to Diversity: 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, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic under federal, state, or local law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require an accommodation during the job application process, please notify accessibility@pinterest.com for support