Senior Manager, Machine Learning Engineering Applied Research

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Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$227,871–$469,147 / yr
Posted
7 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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This role $349k
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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Manager, Machine Learning Engineering Applied Research

As a Sr. Manager, Machine Learning Engineering-Applied Research within the Applied Science team, you will lead and develop a talented group of machine learning researchers and engineers specializing in recommendation systems. You will own the technical roadmap and strategic vision for next-generation recommendation systems, transitioning breakthrough research into production-ready systems that impact core metrics. Your daily work involves managing team charters, building foundational embeddings, and collaborating with Core Engineering, Ads Engineering, Infrastructure, Content, and Data Science teams to solve complex engineering challenges. The role requires expertise in state-of-the-art machine learning techniques, web-scale data, and potentially LLM or generative AI capabilities. You will translate ambiguous questions into well-defined projects while distilling complex technical findings for leadership. This position focuses on the core problem of scaling advanced recommendation technology across the entire company's product ecosystem.

What you'll do

  • Own the technical roadmap and strategic vision for next-generation recommendation systems.
  • Champion state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to drive innovation in recommendation technology.
  • Transition breakthrough machine learning research into production-ready systems that impact core company metrics.
  • Manage, inspire, and develop a team of machine learning researchers and engineers.
  • Define the team charter to balance cutting-edge research with foundational infrastructure projects.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and data science teams to scale solutions for complex challenges.
  • Translate ambiguous business questions into well-defined projects with clear success metrics.
  • Distill complex technical findings into actionable insights for leadership and product teams.

What we're looking for

  • Must have an MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences, or a related field.
  • Requires 7+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience applying state-of-the-art ML technologies to web-scale data.
  • Requires 3+ years of direct people management experience.
  • Must have a track record of publishing in machine learning, AI, data science, or related technical fields.
  • Must possess deep technical knowledge of modern recommendation systems and ability to transition research into production-ready systems.
  • Ability to mentor, coach, and up-level software and machine learning engineers.
  • Proven ability to translate ambiguous questions into well-defined projects with clear success metrics.
  • Experience with LLM/Agentic workflows and generative AI capabilities is preferred.

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