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This role pays more than
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of similar roles. Most pay
$214,000–$255,062
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At the midpoint, this role pays about
$306k
versus about
$235k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
76 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$177,185–$339,078
across 70 roles with salary data.
The Staff Machine Learning Engineer joins the Ads Conversion Core Modeling team to lead the technical vision for state-of-the-art applied machine learning projects. The role involves designing and building large-scale deep neural network models to improve user action prediction with low latency. Key responsibilities include mining text, visual, and user signals to infer interests from online activity, automating repeatable tasks like QA checks, and mentoring other engineers. The position requires a strong mathematical foundation in statistical methods and A/B testing. Candidates must demonstrate experience with production ML systems for search, recommendations, or ranking. Technical requirements include using AI coding assistants like Cursor, Copilot, or Codex, alongside LLM-powered productivity tools for SQL data exploration and experiment analysis to solve complex ads conversion problems.
What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in California?
Median $235750 from 200 postings across 34 companies.
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
LLMs
Natural Language Processing
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Spark
Hadoop
SQL
Big Data
Graph Representation Learning
Reinforcement Learning
realtime systems
Ads Ranking
Search
Ranking
Retrieval
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
LLMs
Natural Language Processing
Recommender Systems
Hadoop
Spark
SQL
Data Processing Pipelines
Reinforcement Learning
Graph Representation Learning
realtime systems
Computational Advertising
Remote (San Francisco, CA)+225 days ago
$189,721–$332,012
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Recommendation Systems
Natural Language Processing
Reinforcement Learning
Graph Representation Learning
Hadoop
Spark
SQL
Big Data
realtime systems
LLM
Copilot
Codex
Cursor
Remote (San Francisco, CA)+225 days ago
$138,905–$285,982
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Recommendation Systems
Natural Language Processing
Reinforcement Learning
Graph Representation Learning
Hadoop
Spark
SQL
Big Data
Data Processing Pipelines
realtime systems
Cursor
Copilot
Codex