Machine Learning Engineer II, Visual AI

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Salary: $138,905–$285,982 / yr
Posted: 25 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today

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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 76 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Machine Learning Engineer II, Visual AI

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The Machine Learning Engineer II, Visual AI joins the Pinterest Labs visual modeling team to advance vision-centric large language models. Working within a collaborative pod of engineers and product prototypers, you will prototype new model architectures, fine-tune open-source LLM models, and improve visual perception and tool-using capabilities. Key responsibilities include developing specialized evaluation benchmarks for fashion style recommendations, collecting visual training data for RLHF and targeted fine-tuning, and publishing research at conferences. You will utilize visual encoders, generative computer vision models, and multimodal large language models to solve problems related to multimodal search and text-to-image generation. The role requires an M.S. or PhD in Machine Learning or Computer Science and experience with visual-text datasets to build large-scale generative models for production.

What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $246638 from 41 postings across 11 companies.

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Skills

Machine Learning Computer Vision Large Language Models Generative Modeling RLHF Fine-tuning SQL Cursor Copilot Codex Recommender Systems Graph Neural Networks

What you'll do

Prototype new model architectures for Pinterest vision-language models (VLMs).
Fine-tune open-source LLM models to improve visual perception and tool-using capabilities.
Develop specialized evaluation benchmarks for vision-centric capabilities like fashion style recommendations.
Collect relevant visual training data for RLHF and targeted fine-tuning of Pinterest Canvas.
Contribute to the company's overall visual generative strategy through research and brainstorming.
Publish research findings via conference submissions, papers, and blog posts.
Mentor junior researchers and interns within the Pinterest Labs organization.

What we're looking for

Candidates must have an M.S. or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related field.
Candidates must have at least 2 years of industry experience in computer vision.
Experience working with generative computer vision models and various forms of visual encoders and LLMs is required.
Publications at top ML conferences (preferred).
Experience using AI coding assistants like Cursor, Copilot, or Codex for development and testing (preferred).
Familiarity with LLM-powered productivity tools for documentation search, experiment analysis, and engineering workflow acceleration (preferred).

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