**Who this is for** This position is for an experienced engineering manager with a deep background in large-scale search systems, machine learning, and AI-drive
Work type: remote
Location: San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US
Salary: $189,308 – $389,753/yr
Type: Full-time
**Who this is for** This position is for an experienced engineering manager with a deep background in large-scale search systems, machine learning, and AI-driven content discovery, looking to lead a distributed team on a massive, global scale. **Key highlights** You will oversee the search engine backend, driving innovations in multimodal search, agentic search, and personalized discovery for over 450 million monthly active users, while mentoring engineering talent and shaping the team's strategic roadmap. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have extensive experience leading large-scale production systems in search, recommendation, or ads environments. - Possess deep technical knowledge of applied machine learning, NLP, or computer vision technologies. - Can demonstrate a track record of driving technical vision and roadmap execution for high-traffic consumer products. - Excel at mentoring senior engineers and managers while fostering a culture of technical excellence.
About Pinterest:
Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the [flexibility](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/our-life/pinflex/) to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.
At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.
Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process [here](https://www.pinterestcareers.com/our-philosophy-on-ai-in-hiring/).
Pinterest helps more than 450 million people discover new ideas to help design their life. Our users come to Pinterest to explore ideas and run more than 6 billion search queries every month. Many of these queries represent exploratory search intent and are broad, which means that the search system should be able to deeply understand this intent, and then help people explore content, personalize results, harness visual signals effectively, and show the most engaging content up front. In addition, the team also owns query refinements and modules that help Pinners narrow their search intent from broad exploratory queries, to help them narrow their results down. All of this means that Pinterest search presents a unique challenge quite unlike other search systems and the opportunity to innovate on a product that only Pinterest can build.
We are looking for an exceptional technical leader and engineering manager to help lead the search backend team that spans across Palo Alto and Seattle.
What you will do:
#LI-DM57
At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.
Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
US based applicants only
$189,308—$389,753 USD