Pinterest

Sr.DataScientist,GenAI&LabelingPlatforms

$140–288k San Francisco, California, United States Remote Friendly
The Brief

“Sr. Data Scientist, GenAI & Labeling Platforms at Pinterest. Skills: GenAI-powered labeling and evaluation systems, LLMs, human-in-the-loop quality systems, prompt and rubric design, model evaluation, methods for improving the speed, consistency, and usefulness of judgment-based data. Execute high-impact scientific work across GenAI-powered labeling and evaluation systems. Identify opportunities where LLMs and related methods can improve quality, speed, coverage, and cost efficiency”

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

turn ambiguous problems into rigorous analyses, experiments, and prototypes; rigorous analyses

Eligibility Requirements

In-Office Requirement Statement: This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country., US based applicants only

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

6+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience (or PhD + 3 years) applying scientific methods to real-world problems on large-scale data, hands-on experience as an individual contributor solving technically complex, high-impact data science or ML problems, Ability to turn ambiguous problems into rigorous analyses, experiments, and prototypes, Track record of writing high-quality code and using technical work to influence product or platform direction, Solid cross-functional collaboration skills and experience working effectively across teams, Business and product sense with the ability to define meaningful success metrics, Self-directed learning mindset and comfort working in a rapidly evolving technical landscape

Nice to Have

Experience with labeling systems, evaluation frameworks, human judgment workflows, or internal AI tooling is strongly preferred, PhD + 3 years experience

What You'll Do.

Execute high-impact scientific work across GenAI-powered labeling and evaluation systems

Identify opportunities where LLMs and related methods can improve quality

Develop prototypes that demonstrate value in areas such as prompt optimization

and human-in-the-loop workflows

Design experiments and measurement frameworks to evaluate model performance

and operational tradeoffs

Partner with engineering

and data science teams to productionize successful approaches

Apply standards for trustworthiness

including bias measurement

and responsible oversight

Contribute to reusable methods and frameworks that can scale across teams and use cases

Support more junior scientists and contribute to the technical health of the team

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

partner cross-functionally to turn successful ideas into durable platform capabilities; Partner with engineering, product, and data science teams to productionize successful approaches; Solid cross-functional collaboration skills and experience working effectively across teams

Communication Scope

explain your approach; showing us not just what you know, but how you think

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