Machine Learning Engineer, Pinterest
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Posted today
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Posted today
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience applying ML to real-world problems, preferably in a growth or user acquisition context
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with PyTorch
- Proficiency in data processing and analysis using tools like SQL, Spark, or Hadoop
- Experience with recommendation systems, user modeling, or personalization algorithms
- Familiarity with statistical analysis
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP) to enhance user targeting and personalization strategies
- Proficiency in data visualization techniques
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Contributions to open-source ML projects or research publications
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Machine Learning Engineer II in our Growth Platform engineering group
- You’ll join a small and focussed team who will help us to understand our users better so we can drive engagement and growth, and to improve their user experience
- Develop and implement ML models to improve user targeting and personalization for growth initiatives
- Design and build scalable ML pipelines for data processing, model training, and deployment
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify potential ML solutions for growth opportunities
- Conduct A/B tests to evaluate the performance of ML models and optimize their impact on key growth metrics
- Analyze large datasets to extract insights and inform decision-making for user acquisition and retention strategies
- Contribute to the development of our ML infrastructure, ensuring it can support rapid experimentation and deployment
- Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in ML and recommend new techniques to enhance our growth efforts
- Participate in code reviews and collaborate with team members as needed
Our take
Inspiration and ideas can pop into your head at any time, and with the growth of social media and networking, sharing these interests and gaining exposure has never been easier. Pinterest exists to display these moments visually, as a kind of digital pinboard allowing users to save and share digital images which have inspired them.
Pinterest's emphasis on visual discovery has differentiated it from competitors and created a more positive and fulfilling experience for its users. Pinterest in many ways provides a respite from the ceaseless negativity that plagues social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 450 million users in 2022, driven by uptake mostly outside of North America.
Pinterest has not been immune to woes affecting the global tech sector and made about 5% of its workforce redundant at the end of 2022 and the start of 2023. Having restructured to face a challenging climate, it is well-positioned to resume its growth, which has increased consistently year on year. Its immediate goals are to continue to grow its user base and expand the uptake of its short video product, which it aims to monetize.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Ben Silbermann
(CEO)Worked as a Product Specialist at Google for 2 years before leaving to work on his own apps, which led to founding Pinterest
People progressing
Joined as Marketing Lead, promoted to Head of Growth Ops for English-speaking markets after 3 years. They've have since been promoted to Global Head of Editorial, a position they started in 2022.
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