Pinterest

Machine Learning Engineer II, Visual AI

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Remote, United States or San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$139k - $286k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Prototype new architectures for Pinterest vision-language models and fine-tune open-source LLMs.
  • Improve visual perception and tool-use capabilities of multimodal models.
  • Develop evaluation benchmarks for vision-centric capabilities such as fashion-style recommendations.
  • Collect visual training data for Pinterest Canvas, including data for RLHF and targeted fine-tuning.
  • Read research papers, participate in technical discussions, and help define the company’s visual generative strategy.
  • Publish and publicize work through conferences, paper submissions, and blog posts.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of industry experience in computer vision.
  • M.S. or PhD in machine learning, computer science, or a related field.
  • Experience with generative computer vision models, preferably including visual encoders and LLMs.
  • Preferred qualifications include publications at top machine learning conferences.
  • Preferred experience includes Cursor, Copilot, Codex, or similar AI coding assistants.
  • Familiarity with LLM-powered tools for documentation search, experiment analysis, SQL and data exploration, and engineering workflow acceleration is a plus.

Benefits

  • Remote within the country, with in-person office collaboration required 1–2 times per quarter.
  • Eligible for equity.
  • Not eligible for relocation assistance.

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About Pinterest

1,001-5,000 employees

Pinterest's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. It's the visual inspiration platform where more than 600 million monthly active users worldwide come to search, save, and shop the best ideas in the world for all of life’s moments.

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