Manager II, Machine Learning-Search

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Work type
Remote
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$189,308–$389,753 / yr
Posted
14 days ago
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $229k
This role $290k
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This role pays more than 88% of similar roles. Most pay $198,800–$259,212 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $290k versus about $229k for comparable roles.

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About Pinterest

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.

Listed pay typically runs $164,695–$332,012 across 37 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Manager II, Machine Learning-Search

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As an engineering manager and technical leader for Pinterest’s search backend team spanning Palo Alto and Seattle, you will oversee major areas of the search engine used by over 450 million monthly active users, including indexing, document ranking, query understanding, personalization, and infrastructure scalability. You will innovate on applications like multimodal search and agentic search using NLP and vision models while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience. Your role involves driving the team’s vision, providing senior leadership visibility into global impact, mentoring managers and engineers, and fostering a culture of excellence. Ideal candidates have extensive experience leading large-scale production systems in machine learning and big data technology, along with a strong background in software development and managing impactful engineering teams.

Skills

Python Java Scala Kubernetes AWS Terraform Docker CI/CD PostgreSQL Elasticsearch Redis Hadoop Spark TensorFlow PyTorch NLP Computer_Vision ML_Ops

What you'll do

  • Lead major areas of Pinterest’s search engine for over 450 million users.
  • Drive innovation in query recommendations and multimodal search using NLP and vision models.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance user search experience on Pinterest.
  • Provide senior leadership visibility into the team's global impact and strategic direction.
  • Mentor managers, leaders, and engineers to foster a culture of excellence and expertise.

What we're looking for

  • Experience leading and working on large-scale production search systems using state-of-the-art machine learning.
  • Proven track record of managing an impactful ML-based engineering team of 5+ members for at least 3 years.
  • Strong background in software development with a minimum of 7 years of experience.
  • Applied machine learning expertise, including recommendation systems, NLP, and computer vision.
  • Ability to drive the roadmap and direction of scalable production quality systems end-to-end.
  • Bachelors degree in computer science or related technical field required.

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