Staff ML Engineer: Lead Multimodal & LLM Systems (Equity)

Seattle (WA)

Hybrid

USD 189,000 - 390,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer / Technical Lead to drive the technical direction for foundational ML capabilities in visual representation learning, multimodal content understanding, and LLM-based personalization. You will lead cross-functional teams across research, ML, and engineering to deliver scalable content understanding solutions.

You will guide ambitious research, productionization, and adoption efforts, mentoring engineers and scientists while shaping roadmaps

Qualifications

7+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years of tech leading teams.
MS or PhD in computer science, machine learning, or equivalent experience.
Publications at top ML conferences or open-source ML experience.

Responsibilities

Set the technical direction for foundational ML capabilities across visual representation learning and multimodal content understanding.
Lead high-impact scientific and technical initiatives from problem definition through productionization.
Build reusable embeddings and ML infrastructure while advancing VLMs, LLMs, and sequence modeling techniques.
Partner with Product, Data Science, Applied Science, and Engineering to translate capabilities into product outcomes.
Establish rigorous practices for modeling, data pipelines, distributed training, inference and evaluation.