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About the Role
The Content Foundation ML team at Pinterest is responsible for understanding the semantic meaning of Pinterest content and generating high-quality, reusable signals and insights that power relevance and personalization across the platform. We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager who can drive the team’s technical direction, lead the team in building scalable content understanding systems, and make an impact on core Pinterest user and business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor and grow a team of engineers and applied scientists in developing foundational content understanding signals, infrastructure and systems.
- Provide thought leadership in content understanding and machine learning by setting a long-term technical vision for semantic signal generation, reusable foundational layers, and scalable model-powered infrastructure.
- Partner closely with product, data science, and downstream engineering teams to ensure these signals drive meaningful impact across Pinterest.
- Manage project execution and stakeholder communication, including roadmap planning, technical decision-making, risk mitigation, and progress updates to achieve business goals.
- Help the team solve difficult technical challenges related to leveraging VLM and LLM technologies, building reusable foundational layers, improving inference throughput and freshness, measuring downstream impact, and building robust monitoring and evaluation systems.
Requirements
- 7+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years of management experience.
- Masters degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent work experience.
- Publication at top machine learning and data mining conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, SIGIR).
- Experience with large scale distributed training and inference of LLM and VLM models.
- Experience with distributed tooling for ML data pipelines, e.g. Hadoop, Spark.
- Experience leading ambiguous ML projects to build, apply and improve GenAI models for content understanding and recommendation systems.
- Proven technical leadership across both ML and Data systems, with experience setting direction for multi-quarter roadmaps that span modeling, data pipelines, and productionization, and aligning stakeholders on priorities, trade-offs, and execution plans.
- Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills, building strong partnerships with product, data science, and partner ML teams to clarify ambiguous problem spaces, co-create solutions, and drive consensus with senior stakeholders.
- US based applicants only.
Skills
- Machine Learning
- Large Multimodal Models (VLM)
- Large Language Models (LLM)
- Data Infrastructure
- Content Understanding
- Relevance
- Personalization
- Discovery
- Search
- Growth
- Ads
- Distributed Training
- Distributed Inference
- ML Data Pipelines
- Hadoop
- Spark
- GenAI Models
- Recommendation Systems
- Technical Leadership
- Roadmap Planning
- Stakeholder Alignment
- Cross-functional Communication
- Collaboration
Location
- USA
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Manager
- 7+ years industry experience
- 2+ years management experience
Education Level
- Masters degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent work experience
Salary/Compensations
- $222,716—$389,753 USD
Benefits
- Equity
About the Company
- Millions of people around the world come to Pinterest to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime.
- Pinterest's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
- AI is a powerful partner that augments creativity and amplifies impact at Pinterest.
- Pinterest helps Pinners discover and do what they love.
Equal Opportunity
- Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit.
- 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.
- Pinterest also considers 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.