Responsible AI ML Engineer II: Impact at Scale

Pinterest Engineering; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Base salary range disclosed

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Senior Engineer for Responsible AI to help shape forward-thinking ML initiatives with a focus on fairness and ethical AI. You will work across product engineering teams to align AI models with Pinterest's vision, ensuring responsible deployment at scale.

The role emphasizes collaboration, mentorship, and developing advanced ML approaches rooted in fairness and equitability, with a strong emphasis on real-time, large-scale systems.

Qualifications

• Extensive real-world experience applying advanced ML methods to production systems with a focus on responsible technology (fairness, ethics, societal considerations).
• Familiarity with cutting-edge ML architectures (transformer-based models, 2-tower architectures, LLMs) and their applications in large-scale search and recommender systems.
• Ability to measure, deploy, and refine fairness interventions at scale, bridging research with product impact.

Responsibilities

• Execute on projects in the responsible AI frontier, identifying, avoiding, and mitigating bias across ML applications at Pinterest including generative AI.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to leverage platforms and signals and drive adoption and evaluation of Responsible AI practices and ML Fairness tooling.
• Mentor junior engineers on the Responsible AI team and across the company in the R-AI space.
• Define and drive technical strategy in this area with senior leaders.

Skills

Responsible AI

Fairness

LLMs

Transformer models

Production ML systems

Mentoring

Education

Masters or PhD in CS or related

Tools

Cursor

Copilot

Codex

Job description

Pinterest is seeking a Senior Engineer for Responsible AI to help shape forward-thinking ML initiatives with a focus on fairness and ethical AI. You will work across product engineering teams to align AI models with Pinterest's vision, ensuring responsible deployment at scale.

The role emphasizes collaboration, mentorship, and developing advanced ML approaches rooted in fairness and equitability, with a strong emphasis on real-time, large-scale systems.