Consumer · Visual discovery
- HQ
- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2010
- Size
- 4,000+
- Funding
- Public (PINS)
- Website
- pinterest.com
- Blog
- medium.com
Products
Consumer · Visual discovery
Pinterest currently has 57 active job listings related to artificial intelligence. The majority of these roles are in the application stage, accounting for 46% of the total, followed by agent-related positions at 39%. Engineering is the most frequent function for these hires, and the United States is the primary hiring country. The company is frequently seeking candidates with experience in recommender systems, agent orchestration, and model serving. Over the last 30 days, Pinterest has posted 14 new AI roles, representing a 46% decrease compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 37 active AI roles, up 10% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Ship · Engineering. Salary range $124k–$485k (avg $266k).
Pinterest currently has 53 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: AI Solutions Engineer, Data Scientist, Director, Machine Learning Engineering – Content & User Understanding, Engineering Manager I, Growth AI, Engineering Manager, Developer Agents. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Pinterest's active AI hiring is concentrated in: application (45%), agents (42%), data (6%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Pinterest is hiring AI talent in: United States (49 roles), Ireland (2 roles), Canada (2 roles).
Job postings at Pinterest most frequently reference: recommender systems, agent orchestration, search ranking, model serving, llm observability.
In the past 30 days, Pinterest has posted 14 new AI-related roles. That is a -33% change versus the prior 30 days (21 → 14).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Director, Machine Learning Engineering – Content & User Understanding Director of Machine Learning Engineering to lead the Content and User Understanding team at Pinterest. This leader will define the long-term ML / AI vision, technical strategy and drive execution for building the company-wide content and user understanding ML models and systems that power Pinterest’s critical product surfaces across homefeed, related, search, shopping, growth and ads. Oversees multiple teams of machine learning and backend engineers and managers, driving state of art innovation in VLM and LLM-based approaches. | Ship | 9 |
| Master's Fall Machine Learning Internship (ATG - Visual Search) This internship focuses on developing and launching new user features using ML techniques, particularly in computer vision, generative AI, and responsible AI, within Pinterest's Advance Technology Group (ATG). The role involves hands-on experience with production ML systems, from research to inference and product deployment, leveraging frontier AI tools and agents. Interns will validate AI outputs, contribute to research, write production code, and take ownership of tasks, with a specific focus on Visual Search, Generative AI, and LLMs. |
| AgentServe |
| 9 |
| Principal Engineer, Agentic Engineering Principal Engineer role focused on building the foundational platform and capabilities for AI agents to operate within Pinterest's software development lifecycle. This includes architecting agent runtimes, memory systems, orchestration frameworks, evaluation pipelines, and governance models to enable 3,000+ engineers to build alongside AI agents safely and at scale. The role involves shipping production systems, owning developer velocity measurement, and serving as a technical advisor to leadership. | AgentEval Gate | 9 |
| Sr. Data Scientist, Responsible AI This role focuses on designing and building data science foundations for automated adversarial testing of Generative AI products at Pinterest. The primary goal is to identify vulnerabilities, develop evaluation frameworks, and create harm-detection methodologies to ensure product safety, policy compliance, and user trust. The role involves working cross-functionally with ML Engineers, Trust & Safety, Policy, and Product Managers to proactively mitigate risks in GenAI experiences. | Eval GateAgent | 9 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer Staff Machine Learning Engineer focused on Agentic AI & Recommendations for advertiser and seller experiences. Will lead ML strategy and execution for intelligence layers, building recommendation systems, context foundations, and feedback loops for AI agents. Requires deep recommendation systems expertise combined with modern agentic AI to shape advertiser and seller workflows. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Sr. Data Scientist, GenAI & Labeling Platforms This role focuses on advancing the science and systems behind labeling, evaluation, and GenAI-enabled workflows. The work spans LLM-assisted labeling, human-in-the-loop quality systems, prompt and rubric design, model evaluation, and methods for improving the speed, consistency, and usefulness of judgment-based data. The role requires executing high-impact technical work, partnering cross-functionally, and growing with the team. | DataEval Gate | 8 |
| Sr. Data Scientist, AI/ML Systems Senior Data Scientist role focused on building the measurement and evaluation frameworks for foundational AI models at Pinterest. This role will design system-level metrics, experimentation strategies, and causal inference methodologies to quantify the impact of model improvements on user and business outcomes, directly influencing investment decisions and launch criteria. The role requires deep understanding of recommendation systems and large-scale ML evaluation. | Eval GateAgent | 8 |
| Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Quality Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Quality at Pinterest. This role involves architecting and developing signals for content quality and trust, driving safety for GenAI and conversational use cases, and partnering with ML engineers to deploy production-ready signals. The role also requires aligning with downstream teams on use cases and signal adoption, and working cross-functionally to set and execute long-term strategy. Experience with big data technologies and ML at scale deployment is a plus. | AgentServe | 8 |
| VP, Ads Quality Engineering VP, Ads Quality Engineering to spearhead the AIML engineering division, leveraging data, machine learning, and generative AI to enhance Pinterest's ads delivery funnel. This role requires strong analytical skills, deep understanding of ML and generative AI, online auction dynamics, and experience leading large engineering teams to maximize monetization opportunities. | Ship | 8 |
| Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Responsible AI– Applied Research Science Sr. Machine Learning Engineer focused on Responsible AI, working on bias identification and mitigation, Gen AI alignment, safety fine-tuning, and Red Teaming. Collaborates with other teams to adopt Responsible AI practices and tooling, mentors junior engineers, and defines technical strategy. Requires experience in applying advanced ML methods to production systems, particularly in responsible technology, and familiarity with LLMs/VLMs in large-scale systems. | Post-trainAgent | 8 |
| Manager II, Machine Learning Engineering-Homefeed Manager II, Machine Learning Engineering for Homefeed Retrieval Modeling at Pinterest. This role involves leading a team of 8-9 ML engineers to set strategy, architecture, and roadmap for ML-based solutions in Homefeed retrieval. Responsibilities include owning retrieval sources, ML optimization engines, signal development, and forward-looking investments like generative retrieval. The role requires deep expertise in large-scale production recommender systems and leadership experience. | AgentData | 8 |
| Engineering Manager I, Growth AI Engineering Manager I on Pinterest’s Growth AI Products team, leading a group of engineers building AI-led products and capabilities that drive top-of-funnel growth. The role involves shipping user-facing experiences and AI-powered content representation improvements, partnering closely with product, design, analytics and ML teams. Responsibilities include owning the team's roadmap, driving AI-led innovations, establishing launch readiness standards for AI-powered features, and improving team operating cadence using AI. | Ship | 8 |
| Engineering Manager, Developer Agents Engineering Manager for Pinterest's Agent Foundations team, responsible for architecting, scaling, and leading the development of foundational agent platform systems including serving, evaluation, and monitoring. The role involves technical leadership, team management, and partnering with product and research to define the future of agent experiences at Pinterest. | AgentEval Gate | 8 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Ads Measurement Signal Staff Software Engineer to lead the backend architecture and implementation of a GenAI-powered Conversion Health agent. The role involves designing and implementing services, data flows, and retrieval layers for agents to reason over conversion data, evolving existing GenAI applications with prompt hardening, retrieval quality improvements, and evaluation/safety checks. It also includes designing connections with downstream ads products, structuring the measurement context layer into AI-consumable signals, and partnering with various teams to translate measurement pain points into agent skills. The role emphasizes leading an evolving GenAI culture, navigating ambiguity, codifying guardrails, and driving engineering velocity and measurement quality. | Agent | 8 |
| Staff Technical Program Manager ML/AI Platform Staff Technical Program Manager focusing on cross-engineering special projects to identify, scope, champion, and land key strategic projects important to advancing Pinterest’s platform and underpinning, with a strong emphasis on ML/AI Platform, GenAI infrastructure, and Agent Platform. The role involves using GenAI as the default operating model for program execution, prototyping AI-augmented tools, applying safety-by-design AI governance, driving complex technical decisions, translating strategy into execution, shaping planning and influencing roadmaps, building scalable processes, driving cross-functional alignment, and owning program outcomes end-to-end. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Ecosystem Sr. Staff ML Engineer at Pinterest focused on improving the content ecosystem through ML strategy, measurement frameworks, and optimization approaches. The role involves building models to identify content gaps, understanding content success factors, and optimizing marketplace mechanisms for long-term ecosystem value. It requires technical leadership, rigorous ML thinking, and experience with multi-objective optimization and marketplace dynamics. | Ship | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Conversion Staff Machine Learning Engineer focused on Ads Conversion at Pinterest. The role involves leading technical direction, designing and building large-scale DNN models for user action prediction, and leveraging AI for analysis and workflow acceleration. Experience with production ML systems, leading technical projects, and AI coding assistants is required. | Ship | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Programmatic Ads Staff Machine Learning Engineer for Programmatic Ads at Pinterest, focusing on developing core bidding and ranking systems. The role involves designing and implementing algorithms for real-time bidding, ad scoring, inventory selection, and yield optimization, owning end-to-end ML systems, and integrating new signals. The position emphasizes using AI to accelerate analysis and experimentation, with a requirement for experience in large-scale production ML systems in ads, search, or recommendations. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Sr. Software Engineer, Simulation, tvScientific Senior Software Engineer role focused on building simulation environments and AI-driven tools for the CTV advertising ecosystem. The role involves designing systems to model auction dynamics, bidding strategies, and campaign outcomes, and developing AI agents to automate experimentation and de-risk ML model deployments. Experience with modern AI tools, probabilistic modeling, and adtech is required. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Staff Technical Program Manager, ML/AI Platform Staff Technical Program Manager for ML/AI Platform at Pinterest, focusing on leading strategic programs for ML/AI Platform, GenAI infrastructure, and Agent Platform. The role emphasizes an AI-First Execution Mindset, using GenAI for program execution, prototyping AI-augmented tools, applying AI governance, and driving complex technical decisions. The TPM will translate strategy into execution, shape roadmaps, build scalable processes, and ensure cross-functional alignment. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr. Data Scientist, Gen AI Automation This role focuses on building production-grade GenAI-enabled analytics solutions by integrating enterprise data sources and establishing LLM pipelines with evaluation, observability, and guardrails. It involves designing data models, developing data pipelines, writing SQL, and defining best practices for GenAI in analytics engineering. | AgentData | 7 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Agent Foundations Staff Software Engineer focused on building and scaling the foundational platform for Pinterest's agent experiences. This includes agent serving, evaluation, monitoring, and tool calling infrastructure. The role involves defining technical direction, leading cross-functional teams, and synthesizing agent technology research. | AgentServe | 7 |
| AI Solutions Engineer This role focuses on embedding AI-native engineering within business functions (Marketing, Finance, Sales, HR, Legal) to identify and build AI-powered automation tools. The engineer will work end-to-end, from discovery and scoping to prototyping, launch, and iteration, utilizing agentic frameworks, tool-calling, and responsible AI practices. The role requires strong software engineering skills, hands-on experience shipping AI solutions, understanding of agentic AI systems, system design, data/security judgment, business acumen, and clear communication. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr. Software Engineer, ML Platform, tvScientific ML Platform Engineer to join a team at the intersection of sysops, systems programming, architecture, and large-scale deployments. The platform underpins a real-time bidding agent and ML training system that drive $100M+ in annual revenue. Focus on building a Kubernetes + Ray backend for model training pipelines, and defining the next generation of the training and serving stack. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Software Engineer II, Simulation, tvScientific Software Engineer to build simulation and AI capabilities for a CTV advertising platform. The role involves designing and implementing systems to model the CTV advertising ecosystem, developing AI-driven tools to accelerate ML system development, and using simulation to de-risk ML model deployments. The engineer will also define technical direction and mentor others. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Measurement Products Staff Data Scientist role focused on ad measurement products at Pinterest. The role involves designing and implementing causal inference methods, applying AI/ML techniques to enhance measurement scale and quality, ensuring scientific rigor, influencing product roadmaps with AI-powered solutions, and collaborating with external partners. The position requires technical leadership, mentorship, and strong communication skills, with a focus on turning ambiguous questions into actionable analyses and driving decisions that balance scientific rigor with business value. | Ship | 7 |
| Director, Machine Learning Engineering – Growth Director of Machine Learning Engineering for the Growth organization at Pinterest. This role will define the long-term ML vision, strategy, and operating model to drive user and engagement growth. Responsibilities include overseeing multiple ML teams, partnering with leadership on strategy, defining ML architecture, building and developing teams, and acting as a thought partner. The role requires deep expertise in building and operating large-scale ML systems in production, leading multiple ML teams, and defining technical strategies. | Ship | 7 |
| Sr. Engineering Manager, AI/ML Serving Platform Lead the team that builds the serving and deployment infrastructure for all AI/ML models at Pinterest, including ultra-high-performance C++ model inference engines and production GenAI & LLM model inference stacks. | Serve | 7 |
| Manager II, Machine Learning-Search Manager II, Machine Learning-Search at Pinterest, leading a team responsible for major areas of the search engine, including indexing, ranking, query understanding, personalization, ML-based retrieval, shopping, videos, and infrastructure efficiency. The role involves innovative applications of NLP and Vision Models for query recommendations, multimodal search, agentic search, and query-based module generation. Requires experience leading large-scale production ML systems and applied ML experience. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Staff Data Scientist, Engagement Ecosystem Staff Data Scientist at Pinterest focused on the Engagement Ecosystem. The role involves developing and productionizing ML frameworks for forecasting, recommendation, and causal inference, applying advanced ML and generative AI techniques to model complex interactions, and championing responsible AI use. Requires expertise in ML, causal inference, experimentation, and large-scale data environments, with a track record of influencing product decisions and mentoring junior scientists. | Ship | 7 |
| Manager II, Machine Learning Engineering, Core Engineering Manager II, Machine Learning Engineering for Core Engineering at Pinterest, focusing on search and recommendations for over 500 million users. The role involves leading a team of ML engineers, driving technical direction, strategic planning, and execution for large-scale, low-latency systems and state-of-the-art ML models that deliver significant impact to pinners and business metrics. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Core Engineering Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest focused on building and improving ML models for various product surfaces like Homefeed, Ads, Growth, Shopping, and Search. The role involves using data-driven methods to enhance candidate retrieval and working with large-scale recommendation systems. | Ship | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Core Engineering Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest focused on building and improving ML models for various product surfaces like Homefeed, Ads, Growth, Shopping, and Search, leveraging deep learning and large-scale data to personalize user experiences. | Ship | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization Engineering Machine Learning Engineer focused on Monetization at Pinterest, building and improving ML models for various product surfaces like Homefeed, Ads, Growth, Shopping, and Search. The role involves developing cutting-edge deep learning and ML technology for personalization, leveraging data for candidate retrieval, and enhancing content understanding with LLMs. Experience with large-scale recommender systems, ads ranking, and big data technologies is required. | Ship | 7 |
| Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization Engineering Machine Learning Engineer focused on personalization and monetization within the consumer domain, specifically for Pinterest's ad platform. The role involves building and improving ML models for various product surfaces, leveraging data for candidate retrieval, and enhancing content understanding with LLMs. It requires end-to-end experience with ML systems and a practical understanding of recommender systems or ad ranking. | ShipAgent | 7 |