Machine Learning Engineer II, Computer Vision Applied Science

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Work type: Remote
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $138,905–$285,982 / yr
Posted: 7 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Pinterest is a visual discovery and inspiration platform where people find ideas for home, style, recipes, and more. It serves hundreds of millions of users worldwide through its image and video pinboard product.

Pinterest currently has 37 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Machine Learning Engineer II, Computer Vision Applied Science

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As a Senior Research Engineer on Pinterest's visual modeling team within the Labs group, you will focus on advancing vision-centric large language models (LLMs) to enhance multimodal search and text-to-image capabilities. Your day-to-day responsibilities include prototyping new model architectures by fine-tuning open-source LLMs, developing specialized evaluation benchmarks for fashion style recommendations, and contributing to the broader research community through publications and presentations. You will work closely with a collaborative team of six engineers in the core visual pod, leveraging Pinterest's extensive visual-text datasets to create large-scale generative models for production use. Ideal candidates have 2+ years of industry experience in computer vision, particularly with generative models and multimodal representation learning, and hold an M.S. or PhD in Machine Learning or Computer Science.

Skills

Python PyTorch TensorFlow Hugging Face Transformers CUDA Git Jupyter Notebook CI/CD GitHub Actions Docker Kubernetes AWS Google Cloud Platform Azure PostgreSQL MongoDB Scikit-learn Pandas NumPy Matplotlib

What you'll do

Prototype new model architectures for Pinterest VLMs.
Develop evaluation benchmarks tailored to vision-centric capabilities like fashion style recommendations.
Collect relevant visual training data for Pinterest Canvas and conduct RLHF.
Publish and publicize research work through conferences, papers, and blog posts.
Mentor junior researchers or interns within the Pinterest Labs organization.

What we're looking for

2+ years of industry experience in computer vision.
Experience working with generative computer vision models and LLMs.
M.S. or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related fields.
Hands-on experience finetuning open-source LLM models for visual tasks.
Ability to develop new evaluation benchmarks for vision-centric capabilities.
Publish research findings through conferences, papers, and blog posts.
Mentor junior researchers or interns within the organization.

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