Staff Data Scientist, Trust & Safety - Proactive ML

Pinterest; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Data Scientist for its Core organization—Trust and Safety + Content Quality. You will shape analytics, apply ML, and design experiments to improve safety and trust across products used by millions of users.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Design, Research, and Analytics to translate data into actionable decisions, build scalable pipelines, and communicate findings clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience analyzing data in a fast-paced, data-driven environment.
• Experience applying scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data.
• Excellent communication and ability to explain learnings to both technical and non-technical partners.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, Design and Research.
• Lead projects on Trust and Safety opportunities across different funnel stages.
• Design and productionize robust ML and evaluation frameworks.
• Develop instrumentation and experimentation practices and communicate insights to engineers.
• Build scalable analysis pipelines and provide actionable product insights.
• Advocate for data-driven improvements to product policy and quality.

Skills

Machine Learning

Statistical Modeling

Forecasting

Econometrics

Data Analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Equivalent experience

Tools

SQL

Python or R

Job description

Pinterest is seeking a Data Scientist for its Core organization—Trust and Safety + Content Quality. You will shape analytics, apply ML, and design experiments to improve safety and trust across products used by millions of users.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Design, Research, and Analytics to translate data into actionable decisions, build scalable pipelines, and communicate findings clearly to non-technical stakeholders.