Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Who you are

• 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
• Cross-functional collaborator and strong communicator
• Comfortable solving ambiguous problems and adapting to a dynamic environment

What the job involves

• At Pinterest Labs, you'll work on tackling new challenges in machine learning and multi-modal large language models 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: natural language processing (NLP) and reasoning capability, computer vision for multi-modality, graph neural network, inclusive and responsible AI, reinforcement learning, user modeling, and recommender systems
• 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
• 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