Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Delivery

Hybrid

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco, CAPalo Alto, CASeattle, WA
Salary: $314,580–$550,515 / yr
Posted: 13 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $433k

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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 36 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $164,695–$332,012 across 35 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Delivery

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As a Senior Engineer or Technical Lead within Pinterest’s Ads Delivery team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the Pinterest marketplace by developing and executing strategies to enhance ads delivery systems. Your responsibilities include building backend systems and statistical models that optimize value for Pinners, Partners, and Pinterest, as well as defining experiments to gauge long-term impacts on the marketplace. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve understanding of marketplace design and operations while balancing short- and long-term business objectives. Ideal candidates possess a degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field, along with 10+ years of hands-on experience leading multiple projects. Strong software engineering and mathematical skills are essential, as is familiarity with large-scale online e-commerce systems and computational advertising.

Skills

Python Java C++ SQL Hadoop Spark Kafka Docker Kubernetes AWS Google Cloud Platform Azure CI/CD Git Jenkins Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis Scikit-learn TensorFlow PyTorch

What you'll do

Build and enhance backend systems to maximize value for Pinners, Partners, and Pinterest.
Design and execute experiments to understand long-term Marketplace effects.
Develop strategies to balance short-term and long-term business objectives.
Implement statistical models that underpin the marketplace's operations.
Drive collaboration with cross-functional teams to improve knowledge of marketplace design.
Analyze marketplace dynamics to derive new insights and inform decision-making.
Lead multiple projects as a hands-on engineer and technical leader.

What we're looking for

10+ years of professional experience as a hands-on engineer and technical leader.
Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics or related field.
Strong software engineering skills with knowledge of statistical methods.
Experience leading multiple projects and driving multi-functional collaboration.
Hands-on experience with large-scale online e-commerce systems preferred.
Background in computational advertising is highly desirable.

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