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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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The Sr. Manager, Machine Learning Engineering-Applied Research will lead a team of ML researchers and engineers within the Applied Science team. This leadership role involves managing the technical roadmap and strategic vision for next-generation recommendation systems. The manager will oversee a portfolio of work balancing immediate business impact with long-term research in Generative Recommendation Systems, Large Sequential Models, and Reinforcement Learning. Key responsibilities include mentoring staff, recruiting talent, and transitioning breakthrough research into production-ready systems. The role requires expertise in state-of-the-art ML technologies, web-scale data, and LLM or agentic workflows. Candidates must possess an MS/PhD in a relevant field and demonstrate experience with semantic indexing and deep RL to solve complex engineering challenges across consumer, ads, and platform domains.
Own the technical roadmap and strategic vision for next-generation recommendation systems.
Mentor and grow a team of Applied Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and technical leads.
Balance short-term business metric improvements with long-term high-risk AI/ML research initiatives.
Transition breakthrough ML research into production-ready systems that impact core company metrics.
Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and data science teams to prototype and scale solutions.
Translate ambiguous business questions into well-defined projects with clear success metrics.
Champion the use of state-of-the-art ML techniques like GenRecSys and Reinforcement Learning.
What we're looking for
MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences, or a related field.
7+ years of combined post-graduate academic and industry experience applying state-of-the-art ML technologies to real-world problems on web-scale data.
3+ years of direct people management experience.
Proven track record of delivering high-impact initiatives across multiple product areas using data-driven insights.
Experience mentoring, coaching, and up-leveling software and machine learning engineers.
Excellent communication skills with a strong track record of publications in machine learning, AI, data science, or related technical fields.
Experience managing hybrid teams of research-oriented scientists and production-focused machine learning engineers (preferred).
Track record of publishing at top-tier ML/RecSys conferences (KDD, RecSys, NeurIPS, CVPR) (preferred).
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Deep Learning
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Hadoop
Spark
SQL
Big Data
Data Processing Pipelines
realtime systems
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Copilot
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