Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Pinterest

United States Posted October 19, 2026

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Remote Full-time Senior
Salary Range

$227,871 - $469,147

Job Description

Join Pinterest Labs as a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, where you'll tackle new challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. You'll play a central role in transforming content discovery on Pinterest by driving the research, architecture, scale, and production deployment of Generative Recommendation System (GenRec) and Reinforcement Learning solutions. You'll also conduct research that applies across Pinterest engineering teams, engage in external collaborations and mentoring, and perform research at the intersection of recommendation systems, LLMs, VLMs, and reinforcement learning.

  • Contribuer à la recherche de pointe en IA/ML et à son application aux défis de Pinterest.
  • Identifier, concevoir, architecturer, construire et livrer des solutions ML novatrices à grande échelle.
  • Agir en tant que leader technique dans le domaine de l'IA appliquée, en collaborant avec les équipes produit, d'ingénierie et de science des données.
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale recommendation system and reinforcement learning applications; experience with LLM/VLM post-training is a plus
  • Cross-functional collaborator and strong communicator
  • Minimum 6 years of relevant industry experience
  • MS/PhD in Computer Science, or equivalent industry experience
  • Publications at top ML conferences (e.g. KDD, NeurIPS, RecSys, etc.)
  • Technical leadership and experience in driving ambiguous research problems into production deliverables
Required Skills
machine learning artificial intelligence collaboration mentoring LLM cross-functional collaboration leadership
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