Quick summary
- Work type
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco, CAPalo Alto, CASeattle, WANew York, NY
- Salary
- $146,000–$196,000 / yr
- Posted
- 2 days ago
- Freshness
- Confirmed live yesterday
- Nearby
- 99+ roles within 25 mi
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Salary context
How this pay compares to similar roles
This role pays less than 69% of similar roles. Most pay $159,750–$241,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $171k versus about $201k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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 48 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $177,185–$339,078 across 42 roles with salary data.
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At a glance
TL;DR · Machine Learning Engineer
Master's University Grad Machine Learning Engineer 2027 (USA) will join various machine learning teams to tackle challenges in recommender systems, search, ads, ranking, natural language processing, and graph representation learning. The role involves contributing to cutting-edge research, analyzing data to build intelligent models, and writing clean, sustainable code. Key responsibilities include designing and testing models to predict engagement for notifications and building content recommendation systems. Candidates must possess a Master's degree in a relevant field and experience with ranking, computer vision, information retrieval, and big data technologies like Hadoop or Spark. Required technical skills include mastery of Java, C++, or Python, along with frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or MLFlow. The role focuses on solving large-scale problems involving discovery, personalization, and the development of agent-friendly codebases within a high-scale production environment.
What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in California?
Median $231150 from 188 postings across 28 companies.
Skills
What you'll do
- Contribute to cutting-edge research in machine learning and artificial intelligence applicable to Pinterest products.
- Collect, analyze, and synthesize data findings to build intelligent, data-driven models.
- Write clean, efficient, and sustainable code for large-scale production environments.
- Use NLP and graph analysis to solve modeling and ranking problems across discovery, ads, and search.
- Design, build, and test models to predict user engagement for push notifications, emails, and in-app alerts.
- Build content recommendation systems to power various notification channels.
- Execute state-of-the-art large-scale applied machine learning projects.
- Scope and independently solve moderately complex engineering problems.
What we're looking for
- Master's degree in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences, or a related field is required.
- Experience in machine learning areas such as ranking, computer vision, NLP, content recommendations, embedding, and information retrieval.
- Experience with big data technologies like Hadoop/Spark and scalable real-time systems for processing stream data.
- Mastery of at least one systems language (Java, C++, Python) or one ML framework (Tensorflow, Pytorch, MLFlow).
- Proficiency in AI-native engineering, including designing agent-friendly codebases and iterating on prompts.
- Experience in research and solving analytical problems.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to find solutions for open-ended problems.
- Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy when learning new agent-first development tools.
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