Consumer · Visual discovery
- HQ
- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2010
- Size
- 4,000+
- Funding
- Public (PINS)
- Website
- pinterest.com
- Blog
- medium.com
Products
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.
Consumer · Visual discovery
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sr. Security Software Engineer, Application Security This role is for a Sr. Security Software Engineer focused on application security at Pinterest. The engineer will build tooling, product enhancements, and work with teams to improve security posture and the secure development lifecycle. A key responsibility is to rework existing controls to address increased productivity due to AI and new AI threats. While the company uses AI extensively and the role will interact with AI-related security concerns, the core function is security engineering, not AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Client Account Manager This role is for a Sr. Client Account Manager at Pinterest, focusing on driving business results for large strategic advertisers. The role involves planning, executing, and optimizing data-driven ad campaigns, building strategic partnerships, ensuring data implementation, optimizing media campaigns, delivering performance reports, and advising clients on ad products and strategies. The role requires experience managing client accounts with data-driven strategies, strong knowledge of advertising best practices, and the ability to build full-funnel sales strategies. A key aspect is the demonstrated curiosity and willingness to explore and leverage AI tools to improve productivity in campaign setup, reporting, client communications, and research, while maintaining accuracy. |
| — |
| 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Ads Measurement Products Staff Software Engineer for Pinterest's Ads Measurement Products team. This role focuses on leading the architecture and technical direction of the measurement platform, including data pipelines, services, and AI enablement. The engineer will partner with Product and Data Science to ensure rigor, trust, and operational excellence in ads measurement. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Data Scientist, tvScientific This role is for a Sr. Data Scientist at Pinterest's tvScientific platform, focusing on optimizing CTV advertising campaigns using data science and ML. The role involves writing production code, designing and analyzing experiments, creating reporting tools, and translating insights into product features. While AI is used to improve speed and quality, the emphasis is on the application of ML fundamentals and rigorous evaluation of AI-assisted work within a product context. | Ship | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Big Data, tvScientific Staff Data Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and evolution of identity services and a data governance platform, focusing on privacy-safe and well-governed data. The role involves building pipelines, ensuring matching logic, exposing data via APIs, and implementing privacy-by-design principles and regulatory compliance. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Software Engineer, Big Data, tvScientific Senior Data Engineer role focused on building and scaling robust data infrastructure using AWS, Spark, and Scala. The role involves evolving core data pipelines, optimizing data storage, and collaborating with Data Science and Product teams to design data solutions. While the role emphasizes using AI tools to improve workflow and critically evaluating AI-assisted work, the core responsibility is data engineering, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Principal Engineer, Compute Platform Principal Engineer to lead and scale the consolidation and modernization of Pinterest's compute platform (PinCompute), focusing on large-scale stateful and GPU-heavy AI workloads. The role involves designing and building around Kubernetes, handling stateful systems, optimizing workload utilization, and evolving the platform towards multi-cloud capabilities. Emphasis on delivering GPU resources for AI workloads and leveraging AI tools for migration, operations, and development velocity. | — | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Programmatic Ads Staff Software Engineer on the Programmatic Ads team at Pinterest, focusing on integrating with external demand partners, driving performance optimization for ad products, and building internal tools. The role involves leading partner integrations, using AI to accelerate team execution and decision-making, driving the full software development lifecycle, and mentoring junior engineers. Requires significant backend software engineering experience in large-scale distributed systems and experience with ad serving platforms. A strong emphasis is placed on the ability to leverage AI effectively and critically evaluate AI-assisted work, ensuring high standards of technical excellence and ownership. | Ship | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Big Data Storage Staff Software Engineer to build and optimize Pinterest's exabyte-scale big data storage platform, focusing on Apache Iceberg and powering ML/AI innovations. The role involves technical leadership, designing scalable storage systems, and collaborating with data, ML/AI, and infrastructure teams. | — | 5 |
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Delivery This role focuses on building and improving backend systems and statistical models for Pinterest's ads delivery marketplace, aiming to maximize value for users, partners, and the company. It involves defining and implementing experiments, developing strategies for business objectives, and driving cross-functional collaboration. The role is primarily focused on shipping AI-powered products within the consumer domain. | Ship | 5 |
| Sr. Product Manager, Advertiser Experience Product Manager for Advertiser Experience at Pinterest, focusing on tools and workflows for ad creative management and optimization. The role involves shaping how creative assets are activated, including AI-powered solutions, to improve advertiser efficiency and drive revenue growth. It requires understanding advertiser workflows, partnering with cross-functional teams, and shipping improvements. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Data Scientist, Core This role focuses on applying quantitative modeling, experimentation, and algorithms to shape people-facing and business-facing products at Pinterest. The data scientist will develop best practices for instrumentation and experimentation, bring scientific rigor to product challenges, build analysis pipelines, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver insights and build new experiences. The role emphasizes using machine learning and deep learning frameworks to solve complex engineering challenges and influence product development for millions of users. | Ship | 5 |
| Sr. Data Scientist, Monetization This role is for a Sr. Data Scientist on the Monetization Engineering team at Pinterest. The primary focus is on analyzing and improving the ads ecosystem through data-driven strategies, modeling, and experimentation. While AI is mentioned as a partner, the core responsibilities revolve around traditional data science tasks like strategic analysis, opportunity sizing, segmentation modeling, experimentation, and metric tracking within the ads domain. The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership of data products and collaboration with cross-functional teams. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, iOS This role is for an iOS Software Engineer at Pinterest. While the company emphasizes AI as a partner and the role is expected to leverage AI tools for tasks like drafting, prototyping, and information synthesis, the core responsibilities involve building Pinner-facing frontend features in iOS, contributing to the product development process, and partnering with design, product, and backend teams. The role requires strong iOS development skills and experience, with an expectation to use AI tools to enhance productivity and quality, and critically evaluate AI-assisted work. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist Data Scientist role at Pinterest focused on applying quantitative modeling, experimentation, and algorithms to solve complex product and business challenges. The role involves developing best practices for instrumentation and experimentation, bringing scientific rigor to product development, building analysis pipelines for insights at scale, and collaborating cross-functionally to drive product improvements. Experience with ML/DL frameworks and large dataset manipulation is required. | Data | 5 |
| Sr. Software Engineer, Backend Backend engineer role at Pinterest focused on building Pinner-facing features and large-scale distributed systems. The role emphasizes leveraging AI tools for faster execution, information synthesis, and improving workflow quality, while also requiring critical evaluation of AI-assisted work and high integrity. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II, Backend Backend engineer role at Pinterest focused on building consumer-facing features. The role emphasizes leveraging AI tools for faster execution and synthesis of information, alongside critical evaluation of AI-assisted work. While AI is a partner, the core craft is backend engineering, not AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Staff Product Manager, Billing Product Manager for Pinterest's billing systems, focusing on evolving transaction processing, expanding capabilities, and ensuring system reliability. The role involves leading product vision, strategy, and execution, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and translating insights into product requirements. While AI is mentioned as a tool for personal productivity, the core of the role is in financial systems and product management, not AI development. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Treasury Analyst This role is for a Sr. Treasury Analyst at Pinterest. The primary responsibilities include leading global cash management, preparing liquidity and yield reporting, supporting payment operations, managing banking infrastructure, and optimizing the Treasury Management System (TMS). The role also involves driving operational excellence through automation and AI-enabled solutions, ensuring SOX compliance, and supporting M&A activities. The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of treasury experience, strong analytical skills, and excellent communication abilities. Experience with corporate insurance, banking operations, and foreign exchange is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Revenue Operations and Order Management Manager role focused on revenue operations and order management, identifying and championing AI/ML opportunities to improve processes, accuracy, and efficiency. The role involves leading a team, driving data-driven insights, managing change, and defining the long-term vision for order management and quote-to-cash operations. | — | 0 |
| Administrative Business Partner I - Hourly Administrative Business Partner to support senior leaders on the Engineering and Platform leadership team at Pinterest. Responsibilities include managing schedules, tracking OKRs, assisting with team meetings, coordinating events, and managing budgets. Requires 4+ years of administrative experience, with 2+ years supporting VP/Director level executives in tech. | — | 0 |
| People Tech Lead This role is for a Lead People Tech Specialist with 7+ years of HR technology experience, focusing on recruiting systems and Workday. The role involves implementing, optimizing, and supporting recruiting platforms, managing integrations, and partnering with various stakeholders. A key aspect is shaping the team's use of AI for People Tech work, identifying use cases, conducting experiments, and ensuring responsible AI adoption with guardrails. | — | 0 |
| Agency Lead This role is for an Agency Lead at Pinterest, focused on growing the US agency business by acting as the primary point of contact for Publicis agencies. The role involves leveraging executive relationships and ad platform expertise to educate agencies, drive revenue, and build advocacy. While the role mentions using AI tools for data analysis and efficiency, the core responsibilities are in sales, client management, and business development within the advertising platform, not in building or directly shipping AI/ML models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Sr. SDET, tvScientific Senior SDET role focused on quality assurance for Pinterest's web platform and APIs, with an emphasis on testing and validating AI-assisted features and workflows. The role involves designing and executing manual and automated tests, collaborating with engineers, and integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines. While the company uses AI and the role requires evaluating AI-assisted work, the core function is not building AI models but ensuring the quality of the overall product which may include AI components. | — | 0 |
| Data Scientist II, Infrastructure Data Scientist II, Infrastructure role at Pinterest focused on improving the measurability, intelligibility, and actionability of the company's infrastructure systems. Responsibilities include defining and measuring infrastructure health, building analytical frameworks, strengthening data foundations, and analyzing experiments to optimize performance, reliability, and cost. Requires strong SQL, analytical programming, experimentation, and communication skills, with a focus on improving complex systems. | — | 0 |
| Lead Client Partner, Travel This role is for a Lead Client Partner at Pinterest, focusing on the Travel industry. The primary responsibility is to drive revenue growth by developing strategic sales plans, building strong client relationships, and acting as a product expert for Pinterest's ad offerings. While the company mentions AI as a partner, this role is focused on sales and client management, not direct AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Lead Client Account Manager, Mid-Market This role focuses on managing client accounts and influencing their marketing strategies on Pinterest, driving revenue growth through relationship building, data insights, and campaign optimization. While the company uses AI, this role is client-facing and sales-oriented, not directly involved in building or deploying AI models. | — | 0 |
| Industry Manager II, Mid-Market This role is for an Industry Manager II at Pinterest, focusing on leading a team of Mid-Market sellers to help advertisers grow through Pinterest's advertising solutions. The role involves frontline leadership, coaching sellers, driving execution, and achieving revenue goals. While the company emphasizes AI as a partner, this specific role is in sales management and does not involve building or directly working with AI models. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Batch Processing Platform Staff Software Engineer focused on building and optimizing Pinterest's batch processing platform and infrastructure using big data technologies like Spark, Presto/Trino, and Iceberg, handling petabytes of data. Responsibilities include design, implementation, optimization, collaboration, technical leadership, and mentorship. | — | 0 |
| Lead Client Partner, Tech This role is for a Lead Client Partner at Pinterest, focusing on developing and growing relationships with strategic advertisers in the Tech/Telco space. The primary responsibilities include meeting performance targets, developing new business, maintaining and expanding customer relationships, and resolving specific customer issues. The role requires driving revenue growth and spearheading a vision for long-term client success by guiding clients' efforts to drive value for Pinners. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Software Engineer, Backend, tvScientific Senior Backend Engineer role at Pinterest, focusing on designing, building, and scaling contract and billing systems for the tvScientific CTV advertising platform. The role involves developing backend services for various contract structures and billing models, ensuring accuracy, auditability, and reliability. It emphasizes domain modeling, data integrity, and sound engineering judgment, with a requirement to leverage AI tools for workflow improvement while maintaining critical evaluation of AI-assisted work. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Cache Infra Engineering Manager II for Cache Infra at Pinterest. This role leads a team to build and operate large-scale caching systems, modernize the tech stack, and drive strategic initiatives like migrating memcached to Kubernetes. The role requires experience in distributed systems, managing engineering teams, and leveraging AI to accelerate development. | — | 0 |
| Director & Assistant General Counsel, Corporate & Securities This role is for a Director & Assistant General Counsel, Corporate & Securities at Pinterest. The primary responsibilities include managing U.S. securities law compliance, SEC reporting, corporate transactions, corporate governance, and equity administration. The role involves leading a team and partnering with various departments like Finance, Investor Relations, and Accounting. While the company mentions using AI tools for efficiency in certain processes like disclosure and insider trading compliance, the core function of the role is legal counsel and compliance, not AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Conversion Data Privacy Staff Engineer to lead architecture and technical direction for Pinterest's conversion data privacy platform, focusing on safe and compliant use of conversion data for ads reporting and monetization. This involves designing and evolving privacy-critical pipelines and services, including controlled data environments, access controls, privacy rules enforcement, and de-identification pipelines. The role requires partnering with Product, Data Science, Legal, and infrastructure teams to set technical standards for data privacy at scale and mentor other engineers. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer I, Backend Backend engineer role at Pinterest focusing on building robust frameworks and features for Pinner-facing products, scaling distributed systems, and improving developer experience. While the company uses AI, this role is not directly building or researching AI models. | — | 0 |
| Group Product Manager I, Connections | — | — |
| Group Product Manager II, Creative Tech - tvScientific | — | — |
| Sr. Client Account Manager, Travel | — | — |
| Sr. Client Account Manager, CPG | — | — |
| Sr. Data Scientist, Trust and Safety | — | — |
| Director, Mid-Market Sales | — | — |
| Sr. Staff Engineer, Performance Ad Formats | — | — |
| Lead Product Analyst, Pinner Engagement | — | — |
| Client Partner II, Mid-Market | — | — |