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.
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Within the Ads Quality team, we try to connect the dots between the aspirations of Pinners and the products offered by our partners. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and executing a vision for the evolution of the machine learning technology stack within Ads Ranking. You will work on tackling new challenges in machine learning and deep learning to advance the statistical models that power the ads engagement and delivery that bring together Pinners and partners in this unique marketplace.
What you'll do:
- Lead user-facing projects that involve end-to-end engineering development in both frontend and backend and ML
- Improve relevance and increase long term value for Pinners, Partners, Creators, and Pinterest through efficient Ads Delivery
- Improve our engineering systems to improve the latency, capacity, stability and reduce infra cost
- Collaborate with product managers and designers to develop engineering solutions for user-facing product improvements
- Collaborate with other engineering teams (infra, user modeling, content understanding) to leverage their platforms and signals
What we're looking for:
- Experience with large scale data processing (e.g. Hive, Scalding, Spark, Hadoop, Map-reduce)
- 8+ years working experience in the engineering teams that build large-scale ML-driven user-facing products
- 3+ years experience leading cross-team engineering efforts that improves user experience in products
- Strong execution skills in project management
- Masters or PhD in Comp Sci or related fields
- Understanding of an object-oriented programming language (Go, Java, C++, Python)
- Desired skills:
- Experience in working in frontend, backend and ML systems for large-scale user-facing products, and have a good understanding of how they all work
- Experience in closely collaborating with product managers / designers to ship ML-driven user-facing product
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
In-Office Statement:
- 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.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/month and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.
Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
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Pinterest is the visual inspiration platform people around the world use to shop products personalized to their taste, find ideas to do offline and discover the most inspiring creators. Today, more than 460 million people come to the platform every month to explore and experience billions of ideas that have been saved. We’re proud to help people to discover and do what they love.
