**Who this is for** This role is for a senior machine learning engineer looking to drive the modeling strategy for Pinterest’s content understanding systems, fo
Work type: remote
Location: San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US
Salary: $189,308 – $389,753/yr
Type: Full-time
**Who this is for** This role is for a senior machine learning engineer looking to drive the modeling strategy for Pinterest’s content understanding systems, focusing on how the platform interprets images, text, and video. **Key highlights** You will lead the full ML lifecycle—from labeling and training to low-latency production deployment—and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve search, ads, and safety signals. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have significant experience building large-scale ML systems and providing technical leadership. - Possess deep hands-on expertise in computer vision, NLP, or transformer-based embedding models. - Are highly proficient in Python and major ML frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow. - Have a proven track record of deploying models to production and managing online experimentation.
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/).
The Content Understanding team builds machine learning models that “read” Pinterest content—images, text, and video—to produce high-quality semantic signals (e.g., embeddings, localization, quality/safety labels). These signals power relevance and retrieval for Homefeed, Search, Related Pins, and Ads, and also support integrity use cases like spam and low-quality detection. We work end-to-end: from data and labeling strategy, to model training and evaluation, to low-latency serving and monitoring at Pinterest scale. The role is ideal for a senior modeler who also enjoys developing, productionizing models and leading technical direction across teams.
What you’ll do:
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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