Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Measurement Products

Pinterest; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 189,308 - 389,753; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity opportunities

Flexible working model

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead the development of ML systems that enhance ads measurement. This role involves working with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to implement scalable and privacy-aware solutions that improve measurement quality.

Ideal candidates will have over 7 years of hands-on experience in building ML systems, solid software engineering skills in Python or Java, and a strong background in ads measurement. The office is located in San Francisco and requires in-person collaboration once a week.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building and deploying ML systems.
• Hands-on experience in ads measurement and effectiveness domains.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python or Java.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of ML-powered components for ads measurement.
• Build scalable ML and data pipelines.
• Collaborate with Data Science to enhance measurement methodologies.

Skills

Large-scale ML systems

Ads measurement

Python

Java

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or related field

Tools

SQL

Job description

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.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other's unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's possible.

At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact. We are looking for candidates excited to be part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we'll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.

Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. (Additional resources on our AI interview philosophy are available.)

Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Ads Measurement

We’re looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead the development of ML systems that power Pinterest’s first‑ and third‑party ads measurement products. In this role, you’ll set the technical direction for scalable, trustworthy, and privacy‑aware ML solutions that help advertisers understand the impact of their investment on Pinterest. You’ll work across Product, Engineering, Data Science, and external partners to turn rigorous measurement methods into production systems that improve measurement quality, efficiency, and decision‑making.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design, implementation, and productionization of ML‑powered components for ads measurement products, including measurement methodologies, diagnostics, anomaly detection, automated insight generation, and advertiser decision‑support.
• Build and evolve scalable ML and data pipelines that support first‑ and third‑party measurement products, partnering with infrastructure and product engineering teams to create reliable, maintainable, and performant systems.
• Partner closely with Data Science to translate causal inference, incrementality, and experimentation methodologies into production‑grade systems and tools that increase the speed, scale, and usability of measurement products without compromising rigor.
• Collaborate with internal and external measurement partners, such as clean rooms, conversion APIs, MMM partners, and MTA vendors, to integrate high‑quality signals and develop joint measurement solutions.
• Establish ML engineering best practices across data quality, feature pipelines, evaluation, experimentation, monitoring, and model governance within Measurement Products, and mentor engineers and partner teams working on ML‑powered components.
• Influence the Ads Product and Engineering roadmap by identifying high‑leverage opportunities to apply ML to measurement workflows and products, and by driving clear technical trade‑offs, interfaces, and success metrics across teams.
• Use AI to accelerate development, prototyping, analysis, and iteration, while applying strong judgment, testing, and verification to ensure correctness, explainability, data protection, and advertiser trust.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of experience building and deploying large‑scale ML systems in production, ideally in ads, measurement, recommendation, ranking, search, or closely related domains.
• Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Meaningful hands‑on experience in ads measurement, ad effectiveness, or incrementality domains, such as conversion lift, brand lift, budget‑split testing, matched‑market tests, MMM, MTA, conversion APIs, or clean‑room‑based measurement.
• Strong end‑to‑end ML ownership as an individual contributor, including scoping ambiguous problems, designing labels and features, building training and inference workflows, and defining robust offline and online evaluation strategies.
• Solid software engineering skills in at least one modern programming language such as Python or Java, plus strong experience with SQL and large‑scale data systems.
• Expertise in probabilistic modeling, experimentation, and measurement under noisy or partial labels, with the ability to design trustworthy metrics and make principled trade‑offs across precision, recall, bias, power, coverage, and data quality.
• Proven Staff‑level technical leadership as a hands‑on IC, including setting technical direction, driving multi‑quarter roadmaps, and aligning senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Infra, and partner teams.
• Demonstrated experience using AI coding assistants and LLM‑powered productivity tools to improve speed and quality in development, experimentation, and data exploration, with a clear approach to validation, critical review, and accountability for final outputs.

In‑Office Requirement Statement

This role will need to be in the office for in‑person collaboration one time per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices: San Francisco, Palo Alto, or Seattle.

Relocation Statement

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

Compensation

US based applicants only. Base salary range: $189,308 — $389,753 USD. 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.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Pinterest is an equal‑opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member), or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.