Pinterest search presents a unique challenge quite unlike other search systems and the opportunity to innovate on a product that only Pinterest can build. The search system should be able to deeply understand user intent, and then help people explore content, personalize results, harness visual signals effectively, and show the most engaging content up front. The team also owns query refinements and modules that help Pinners narrow their search intent from broad exploratory queries, to help them narrow their results down.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience leading and working on a large-scale production search, recommendation or ads systems that are based on state-of-the-art machine learning and big data technology.
- Applied machine learning experience and expertise and experience in generative technologies is strongly preferred.
- Tech-leadership experience in substantially, internet-scale complex recommendation problems with ability to form and drive roadmaps
Responsibilities
- leading the machine learning strategy and projects in Pinterest search, including indexing and document ranking, query and content understanding, personalization, ML based retrieval, shopping, videos.
- work on innovative applications of LLMs, NLP and other techniques to drive query recommendations, autocompletions, and query based module generation and ranking.
- Work closely with the other engineering teams in Pinterest to bring superior search experience to our users, such as content signal, research and infrastructure.
- Bring cutting-edge research and industry knowledge into the team around NLP, information retrieval, machine learning, generative AI and related areas
- Mentor and grow junior engineers on the team.
Other
- A knack for product and impact on users of a consumer product.
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
- We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
- US based applicants only
- Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit.
