Staff Visual AI Engineer: Vision & Diffusion

Pinterest; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 189,000 - 390,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking research engineers and scientists to advance visual AI capabilities. You will train large-scale vision models, develop multimodal representations, and collaborate across teams to ship production-ready features.

The role emphasizes research excellence, plus opportunities to publish and present at conferences. Applicants should have strong PyTorch experience and a PhD or equivalent work background. US-based location is supported with flexible hybrid work.

Qualifications

• Experience building and training large-scale vision models.
• Strong background in multimodal representations and visual language modeling.

Responsibilities

• Build state-of-the-art visual encoders, VLMs, and diffusion models.
• Experiment with billion-scale image datasets on GPU clusters.
• Develop visual reasoning tools for image retrieval and editing.
• Read research papers and contribute to our AI strategy discussions.
• Create data agents to assemble training data for multimodal models.
• Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to ship capabilities.
• Publish work at conferences and maintain project blogs.
• Mentor researchers and interns in Pinterest Labs.
• Collaborate across teams in SF, Seattle, NYC, and remote roles.

Skills

Vision models

Multimodal ML

Research proficiency

Collaboration

Education

MS/PhD in ML or related

Tools

PyTorch

Large-scale training

Job description

Pinterest is seeking research engineers and scientists to advance visual AI capabilities. You will train large-scale vision models, develop multimodal representations, and collaborate across teams to ship production-ready features.

The role emphasizes research excellence, plus opportunities to publish and present at conferences. Applicants should have strong PyTorch experience and a PhD or equivalent work background. US-based location is supported with flexible hybrid work.