12 hours ago
Base Salary
$245k - $429k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the technical vision and roadmap for model training and serving across Product ML Infrastructure.
- Lead architectures for distributed training, fine-tuning, distillation, evaluation, and high-scale CPU/GPU inference.
- Improve data loading, distributed execution, GPU kernels and memory, compilation, quantization, scheduling, and capacity efficiency.
- Build reliable and observable platforms with strong quality guarantees and training/serving consistency.
- Partner with Ads and Core AI/ML teams to productionize features and models safely at Pinterest scale.
- Drive cross-organizational architecture decisions, migrations, and operational standards.
- Mentor senior engineers, raise the engineering bar, and use AI-assisted development while maintaining correctness and data safeguards.
Requirements
- Demonstrated success setting technical strategy and delivering company-wide infrastructure initiatives in ambiguous environments.
- Deep expertise in distributed ML systems, including production experience with large-scale training and online inference.
- Strong GPU performance knowledge, including profiling, distributed execution, kernel and memory optimization, compilation, or quantization.
- Experience with AI/ML modeling, recommender systems, Ads ranking, retrieval, feature platforms, or similarly demanding ML workloads.
- Strong systems programming and design skills in C++, Java, or Python.
- High ownership and sound judgment in reliability, security, cost, and operational excellence.
- Ability to use AI to improve development speed while critically evaluating AI-assisted work and safeguarding correctness, quality, and sensitive data.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $245,402—$429,454 USD, with eligibility for equity.
- No relocation assistance is provided.
- Remote working model with in-office collaboration required 1–2 times per quarter from a commutable distance of the Palo Alto or San Francisco office.
- Pinterest provides inclusive workplace policies and equal employment opportunity.
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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.