StaffMachineLearningEngineer
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“Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest. Skills: Machine Learning, Agentic AI, Recommendation Systems. Lead ML strategy. Lead ML execution”
What You'll Achieve.
Drive advertiser growth; Transform insight to action
Industry & Context.
Troubleshoot campaign performance; Clarify ambiguous spaces
In office 1 day/week, Commutable distance
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years ML systems production, End-to-end ML ownership, Solid software engineering skills, Degree in CS or related, Equivalent experience accepted, Deep recommendation system understanding, Proven Staff-level technical leadership, Aligning stakeholders on priorities, Excellent cross-functional communication, Building partnerships with teams, Experience using AI coding assistants, Experience with LLM productivity tools
Nice to Have
Experience with Cursor, Experience with Claude Code
What You'll Do.
Build recommendation systems
Build context foundations
Understand advertiser goals
Understand seller goals
Surface next-best action
Learn from user response
Lead design of systems
Lead implementation of systems
Power proactive guidance
Transform data into signals
Own recommendation initiatives
Develop feature pipelines
Develop evaluation loops
Measure recommendation quality
Measure business impact
Measure failure modes
Improve agent behavior
Use AI to accelerate analysis
Use AI to accelerate prototyping
Use AI to accelerate documentation
Use AI to accelerate experimentation
Ensure customer trust
Ensure responsible AI usage
Ensure production-quality systems
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Product teams; Data science teams; Infra teams; Partner ML teams; Senior stakeholders
Communication Scope
Cross-functional communication; Stakeholder alignment
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
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 Advertiser and Seller Experience team builds intelligent systems that help Pinterest advertisers and sellers move from insight to action. Our work spans advertiser-facing products such as Ads Manager as well as internal seller productivity tools that help sales teams identify opportunities, prepare customer conversations, troubleshoot campaign performance, and drive advertiser growth. As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer focused on Agentic AI & Recommendations, you will lead the ML strategy and execution for the intelligence layer behind these experiences. You will build recommendation systems, context foundations, and feedback loops that help AI agents understand advertiser and seller goals, surface the right next-best action, and learn from user response over time. This is a high-impact Staff IC role for someone who wants to combine deep recommen
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