2 months ago
Base Salary
$189k - $390k/yr
Responsibilities
- Prototype state-of-the-art visual encoders for recommender systems and internal visual language models.
- Train and experiment with models using billion-scale datasets and large-scale GPU computing.
- Build visual reasoning tools for composed image retrieval, promptable detection and segmentation, and instruction-tuned embedding and generative models.
- Read research papers, participate in discussions, and help shape Pinterest’s visual generative strategy.
- Collect visual instruction training data for multimodal representation, composed image retrieval, text-to-image generation, and visual language modeling.
- Publish and share work through conferences, paper submissions, and blog posts.
- Mentor junior researchers and research interns within Pinterest Labs.
Requirements
- Experience building and training computer vision models.
- Experience with multimodal representations and visual language modeling is strongly preferred.
- Track record of research contributions, such as publications or open-source work, and/or shipping ML models to production.
- Hands-on experience with large-scale model training and modern deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work effectively in a small, fast-moving team.
- M.S. or PhD in Machine Learning or a related academic area, or equivalent work experience.
- Publications at top machine learning conferences are sought.
- Experience using Cursor, Copilot, Codex, or similar AI coding assistants for development, debugging, testing, and refactoring.
Benefits
- Remote role that can be situated anywhere in the country, with in-office collaboration required 1–2 times per quarter.
- Not eligible for relocation assistance.
- Eligible for equity.
- US-based applicants only.
Tech Stack
Categories
AI ResearchML Engineering
About Pinterest
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.