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Distinguished Engineer

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about 3 hours ago
Remote, United States or Seattle, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$280k - $577k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define the long-term technical strategy and architecture for Homefeed, Search, and AI Assistant.
  • Drive a multi-year roadmap for unifying signals, features, and models.
  • Lead the design and adoption of large-scale retrieval and ranking systems.
  • Architect integration of LLMs and foundation models with core discovery stack.
  • Set technical direction for experimentation and evaluation frameworks.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership on high-leverage projects.
  • Partner with Product, Data Science, Research, and Design teams.
  • Raise the bar for engineering excellence in ML systems.
  • Represent Pinterest externally in relevant domains.
  • Balance hands-on technical work with long-term strategy development.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of industry experience in large-scale systems and/or machine learning.
  • Proven experience as a Distinguished Engineer or equivalent senior technical leader.
  • Deep expertise in large-scale retrieval and ranking, representation learning, or search systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive multi-year architectural transformations at scale.
  • Strong product intuition and experience partnering with PM/Design/Data Science.
  • Exceptional communication skills for articulating strategy and technical direction.
  • Passion for mentoring and building strong engineering cultures.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.

Categories

AI & MLBackendData Science