Staff Computer Vision ML Engineer — Multimodal Vision

Segment (Twilio); San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 189,308 - 389,753; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest Labs in the United States seeks researchers to advance state-of-the-art visual encoders and multimodal models for recommender systems. You will explore billion-scale datasets on GPUs and publish work at top venues.

You will mentor junior researchers and help shape Pinterest's visual generative strategy while collaborating with a small, fast-moving team. Strong publications or production ML experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience building and training computer vision models.
• Experience with multimodal representations and visual language modeling.
• Track record of research contributions (e.g., publications, open-source work) and/or shipping ML models to production.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale model training and PyTorch.
• Strong collaboration skills and a demonstrated ability to work effectively in a small, fast-moving team.
• MS or PhD in Machine Learning or related academic areas, or equivalent work experience.
• Publications at top ML conferences.
• Experience using AI coding assistants for development, debugging, testing, and refactoring.

Responsibilities

• Prototype state-of-the-art visual encoders powering recommender systems and internal visual language models.
• Experiment with billion-scale datasets and large-scale GPU computing.
• Build flexible visual reasoning tools such as composed image retrieval, promptable detection/segmentation, and embedding/generative models.
• Read research papers, participate in group discussions, and help brainstorm the company's visual generative strategy.
• Help collect relevant visual instruction training data shared across multimodal representation, image retrieval, text-to-image generation, and visual language modeling.
• Publish and share work through conferences, paper submissions, and blog posts.
• Mentor junior researchers and research interns within Pinterest Labs.

Skills

Computer vision

Multimodal representations

PyTorch

Publications

Model training at scale

Collaboration

AI coding assistants

Education

MS/PhD in ML or related

Equivalent work experience

Tools

PyTorch

Cursor/Copilot/Codex

Job description

Pinterest Labs in the United States seeks researchers to advance state-of-the-art visual encoders and multimodal models for recommender systems. You will explore billion-scale datasets on GPUs and publish work at top venues.

You will mentor junior researchers and help shape Pinterest's visual generative strategy while collaborating with a small, fast-moving team. Strong publications or production ML experience preferred.