2 months ago
Base Salary
$209k - $429k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical vision and architecture for Pinterest Assistant’s scalable backend systems.
- Lead implementation of orchestration, memory, personalization, context management, APIs, tool integrations, and backend infrastructure.
- Drive foundational platform investments that improve Assistant capabilities, developer velocity, reliability, and scalability.
- Partner with Product, Design, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Machine Learning teams on personalized multimodal conversational experiences.
- Shape architectures for retrieval, context assembly, tool execution, memory, and model orchestration.
- Establish production LLM and agent practices for observability, logging, evaluations, safety, rollouts, and incident response.
- Mentor engineers, lead architecture reviews, provide technical guidance, and raise engineering quality.
- Influence Pinterest-wide AI platform strategy and make pragmatic architectural decisions in ambiguous environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as computer science or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of backend software engineering experience, including significant experience leading large, ambiguous consumer-facing systems as a senior individual contributor.
- 3+ years operating as a technical lead for the architecture and development of large-scale distributed backend systems.
- Strong backend engineering experience with Python, TypeScript, Node, or similar languages and ecosystems.
- Experience building platforms or foundational infrastructure that enables product teams to move faster.
- Strong understanding of model-driven systems and experience partnering with machine learning engineers on AI-powered products.
- Familiarity with retrieval, ranking, personalization, inference, context management, or orchestration concepts.
- Track record of mentoring senior engineers and elevating engineering quality across an organization.
- Strong leadership, communication, cross-functional collaboration, product judgment, and execution skills.
- Nice-to-have experience includes AI-powered or LLM-based products, conversational AI, agents, tool calling, multimodal systems, retrieval, ranking, recommendation, search, personalization, embeddings, RAG, memory architecture, AI evaluation frameworks, experimentation, quality frameworks, and full-stack development.
Benefits
- In-person office collaboration is required once per quarter, and the role can be situated anywhere in the country.
- The position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
- US-based applicants only.
- The position is eligible for equity.
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About Pinterest
Pinterest builds a visual discovery and bookmarking platform where people search, save, and shop ideas across home, fashion, food, and more. The company monetizes primarily through advertising and shopping integrations, using visual search and recommendation systems to connect users and merchants. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, Pinterest is a public company on the NYSE (PINS) with around 482 million monthly users worldwide.