Pinterest is looking for a Machine Learning Engineer Engineering Manager II to drive the team's technical direction, strategic planning, and execution for core engineering functions like search, recommendations, and notifications, impacting over 500 million monthly active users and contributing to the company's goals of inspiring users and driving business metrics.
Requirements
- Experience leading and working on a large-scale production recommendation, e-commerce, search or ads systems that are based on state-of-the-art machine learning and big data technology.
- Strong experience in related fields such as recommendation systems and applied machine learning experience is required.
- Natural language processing and computer vision is a bonus.
- Demonstrated ability to define and drive the strategic roadmap for scalable, production-quality systems from concept to execution.
- Minimum of 1 year of experience managing a high-performing machine learning engineering team of 10+ members.
- 8+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record of delivering impactful solutions.
Responsibilities
- Be responsible for major areas of search, recommendations, notifications, etc for more than 500 million monthly active Pinterest users.
- Potential areas of impact include ML based retrieval, multi domain ranking, L1 modeling, candidate generators, sequence modeling, relevance modeling, and infrastructure efficiency and scalability.
- Manage and mentor a team of Machine Learning engineers (L13 - L16), providing technical guidance and support to help them grow their careers.
- Collaborate closely with other engineering teams at Pinterest to enhance the experience for users, including Advanced Technology Group, Infrastructure, Content Understanding and User Understanding.
- Provide visibility to senior leadership regarding the team’s global impact.
- Partner with stakeholders across the company, including product management, data scientists, and design, to shape the future of the content ecosystem and personalization at Pinterest.
- Build a culture of excellence and expertise within the team.
Other
- MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences, related field, or equivalent experience.
- Strong focus on product impact and user experience within a consumer-focused environment.
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
- 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
