Staff Software Engineer, Ads ML Infrastructure
About Pinterest:
Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.
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Pinterest is one of the fastest growing online advertising platforms. Continued success depends on the machine-learning systems, which crunch thousands of signals in a few hundred milliseconds, to identify the most relevant ads to show to Pinners. You’ll join a small team with high impact, which designs high-performance and efficient ML systems, in order to power the most critical, revenue-generating algorithms and models at Pinterest. Ads ML Infra team holds a mission of accelerating machine learning velocity and quality for Pinterest Ads by providing simple, efficient and performant infrastructure, which includes:
- Ads ML Feature Systems - Streaming & batch feature engineering infrastructure, to efficient feature governance systems and high quality signal for Pinterest ads.
- Ads ML Serving Systems - Building highly efficient, scalable and performant ads online inference systems on top of most advanced technologies including GPU and model quantization.
- Ads ML Training systems - Use the principles of data-centric AI to speed up developer velocity and tackle the most challenging problem in the online advertising industry - privacy preserve ML.
What you’ll do:
- Build ML system solutions (training, inference and feature infra) that directly power new machine learning models to uplevel Pinterest monetization business to 100X+ scale.
- Tackle unique challenges in the online advertising industry including ML data privacy, conversion/clickthrough modelling systems and high performance ML training and serving.
- Work closely with Ads quality teams, build ML ecosystem solutions and tools to improve Ads machine learning innovation velocity.
- Partner with data and infrastructure teams, to up-level the deployment and ML monitoring tools for all Ads Serving engineers.
What we’re looking for:
- 7+ years of relevant industry experience in leading the design of large scale & production ML infra systems.
- Strong communicator and collaborative team player.
- Expertise with at least one state-of-art programming language (Java, C++, Python).
- Experience with building distributed systems or recommendation infrastructure
- Experience with at least one ML dev framework (Tensorflow, Pytorch)
This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
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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
$135,150—$278,000 USD
Our Commitment to Diversity:
Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic under federal, state, or local law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require an accommodation during the job application process, please notify [email protected] for support.