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MachineLearningEngineerII,ComputerVisionAppliedScience
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“Machine Learning Engineer II, Computer Vision Applied Science at Pinterest. Skills: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, LLMs, Generative Models. Prototype new model architectures. Finetune open-source LLM models”
Industry & Context.
Debugging; Refactoring
In-office 1-2 times/quarter
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
2+ years industry computer vision experience, M.S. or PhD in Machine Learning, M.S. or PhD in Computer Science, M.S. or PhD in related areas
Nice to Have
Publications at top ML conferences, Experience using Cursor, Experience using Copilot, Experience using Codex, Experience using AI coding assistants, Familiarity with LLM-powered productivity tools
What You'll Do.
Prototype new model architectures
Finetune open-source LLM models
Improve visual perception
Improve tool using capabilities
Develop new evaluation benchmarks
Tailor benchmarks for vision-centric capabilities
Participate in group discussions
Brainstorm visual generative strategy
Help collect visual training data
Conduct targeted fine-tuning
Publish work via conferences
Publish work via paper submissions
Publish work via blog posts
Mentor junior researchers
Mentor research interns
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Core visual pod; Product prototyping team; Broader research community
Communication Scope
Group discussions; Public speaking
Full Job Description
About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here. The Pinterest Labs group is dedicated to the development and research of applied machine learning. Our initiatives span a diverse range of AI/ML fields, including fundamental computer vision, multimodal large language models, multimodal representation learning, generative modeling, heterogeneous graph neural networks, and recommender systems. By building foundation ML models that utilize our extensive knowledge graph and billions of Pins, we aim to significantly enhance the core Pinterest product. Our visual modeling team is currently seeking new members to focus on the advancement of vision-centric LLMs. We are building VLMs capable of perceiving intricate visual details and understanding user aesthetics to facilitate communication through visual assets using tools like multimodal search and text-to-image models. This role offers the opportunity to wo
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