Staff ML Engineer, Content Mining Tech Lead

Pinterest; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A creative platform company based in Ontario is seeking a Staff ML Engineer to lead the technical direction of a high-performing team. The role involves hands-on design and training of ML systems, mentoring engineers, and defining strategic roadmaps. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in NLP and machine learning products, coupled with a strong software engineering background in Python. This position allows for remote work with occasional in-office collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building ML products end-to-end, with 2+ years as a tech lead.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing partner teams.
• Proven track record shipping models at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own the long-term architecture and execution for content understanding.
• Train/fine-tune LLMs and NLP models for extraction.
• Define and meet SLOs for data quality and model performance.

Skills

Technical leadership

NLP/LLM training and inference

Python proficiency

Model productionization

MLOps

Education

Masters or PhD in ML related studies

Tools

PyTorch

Airflow

Spark/Presto

Job description

A creative platform company based in Ontario is seeking a Staff ML Engineer to lead the technical direction of a high-performing team. The role involves hands-on design and training of ML systems, mentoring engineers, and defining strategic roadmaps. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in NLP and machine learning products, coupled with a strong software engineering background in Python. This position allows for remote work with occasional in-office collaboration.