Job Description
Title: Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Science (Recommendation Systems)
Location: San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US
JobDescription:
About Pinterest:
Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.
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 Labs is a group dedicated to using machine learning to bring inspiration to everyone. Tackling some of the most challenging problems in ML and AI, Labs solves the problem of discovery online and doing it in an inspiring and inclusive way.
In this role, you’ll work on tackling new challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence along with a world-class team of research scientists, and machine learning engineers. You’ll conduct research that can be applied across Pinterest engineering teams and engage in external collaborations and mentoring, while also performing research in any of the following areas: computer vision, graph neural network, natural language processing (NLP), inclusive AI, reinforcement learning, user modeling, and recommender systems.
What you’ll do:
- Contribute to cutting-edge research in machine learning and artificial intelligence that can be applied to Pinterest problems
- Collect, analyze, and synthesize findings from data and build intelligent data-driven model
- Write clean, efficient, and sustainable code
- Use machine learning, natural language processing, and graph analysis to solve modeling and ranking problems across growth, discovery, ads and search
- Scope and independently solve moderately complex problems
What we’re looking for:
- MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences or related field
- 6+ years of industry experience
- Experience in machine learning/information retrieval/ recommendation systems
- Mastery of at least one systems languages (Java, C++, Python) or one ML framework (Tensorflow, Pytorch, MLFlow)
- Experience in research and in solving analytical problems
- Cross-functional collaborator and strong communicator
- Comfortable solving ambiguous problems and adapting to a dynamic environment