Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Quality

Pinterest

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$268,084–$469,147 / yr
Posted
7 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $247k
This role $369k
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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 Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Quality

Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Quality will serve as the Technical Lead for the Content Quality team, where they will establish the technical strategy, unified architecture, and roadmap for industry-leading methodologies. The role involves architecting processes to deliver signals capturing quality and trust aspects of content while driving safety for GenAI and Conversational use cases, including VLMs. The engineer will collaborate with downstream teams to align on signal impact and work with ML engineers to translate ideas into production-ready features across ranking systems and decision-making workflows. Key requirements include expertise in content modeling at consumer internet scale, experience with big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, or Flink, and proficiency in using GenAI for scaling development. The role focuses on solving technical challenges related to content trust and safety within a large-scale production environment.

What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in California?

Median $246394 from 172 postings across 28 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Develop the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for content quality systems at scale.
  • Architect processes to capture signals regarding content quality and trust across the platform.
  • Drive safety alignment for Generative AI and Conversational use cases including Vision Language Models (VLMs).
  • Collaborate with downstream teams to align on use cases and integrate signals into ranking systems and workflows.
  • Partner with ML engineers to translate ideas into production-ready features from design through deployment.
  • Foster a technical community of Content Quality engineers to share best practices and direction.
  • Manage the full signal lifecycle, including modeling, evaluation, and large-scale implementation.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field such as computer science, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience driving technical strategy at an organizational level.
  • Expertise in content modeling at consumer internet scale.
  • Strong machine learning knowledge and expertise.
  • Experience with machine learning deployment at scale.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with partner engineering teams and multiple stakeholders.
  • Experience with measurement and scalability.
  • Experience using GenAI for scaling ML development.

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