Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Research

Pinterest Pinterest · Consumer · San Francisco, CA · ATG

Staff ML Engineer, Applied Research at Pinterest Labs focusing on cutting-edge research in ML and LLMs, particularly for agentic systems (search, recommendation, reasoning, planning) and multi-modal applications. The role involves data analysis, model building, and writing production-quality code, with a strong emphasis on research and solving analytical problems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Contribute to cutting-edge research in machine learning and LLM that can be applied to Pinterest problems, especially search agent, recommendation agent, reason and planning agent
  2. Collect, analyze, and synthesize findings from data and build intelligent data-driven model
  3. Write clean, efficient, and sustainable code
  4. Use machine learning, natural language processing, and graph analysis to solve modeling and ranking problems across growth, discovery, ads and search
  5. Scope and independently solve moderately complex problems

Skills

Required

  • Machine Learning
  • LLM
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Agentic Systems
  • Python
  • Tensorflow
  • Pytorch
  • Information Retrieval
  • Data Analysis
  • Computer Vision

Nice to have

  • Graph Neural Networks
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • User Modeling
  • Recommender Systems
  • Multi-modal Large Language Models

What the JD emphasized

  • MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences or related field
  • 6+ years of industry experience
  • Experience in machine learning/information retrieval
  • 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

Other signals

  • LLM research
  • agentic systems
  • multi-modal models