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PinterestPinterestSan Francisco, CA

Sr. Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Build and productionize ML systems for real-time bidding, campaign optimization, and incrementality measurement in a CTV ad platform. Requires strong Python, ML fundamentals, and 4+ years experience.

156k – 320k
Remote4+ YOEML Engineering

About the role

What you'll do

  • Write production Python that powers real-time bidding, model training, and campaign optimization
  • Train, deploy, and monitor ML models that decide which ads to show, when, and at what price: millions of bid decisions per second
  • Build and improve our incrementality measurement systems: helping advertisers understand the true causal lift of their CTV spend
  • Design and implement new ML products across the ad-buying lifecycle: audience targeting, bid optimization, pacing, and attribution
  • Use LLMs and generative AI to build internal tools that accelerate how we develop, test, and ship ML systems
  • Serve as a technical lead and mentor on a distributed engineering team

What we're looking for

  • Strong production Python skills: you write code that runs in prod, not just notebooks
  • Solid statistics and ML fundamentals: you can reason about experiment design, model evaluation, and when simpler approaches beat complex ones
  • Familiarity with modern AI tools and good judgment about where they add value
  • Adtech or CTV experience: familiarity with RTB, programmatic advertising, supply-path optimization
  • Clear written communication: we're a distributed team and writing is how decisions get made
  • Comfort with ambiguity: you'll own problems end-to-end in a fast-moving environment, from scoping to shipping
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience
  • 4+ years of industry experience

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience using Cursor, Copilot, Codex, or similar AI coding assistants for development, debugging, testing, and refactoring
  • Familiarity with LLM-powered productivity tools for documentation search, experiment analysis, SQL/data exploration, and engineering workflow acceleration
  • Causal inference: uplift modeling, synthetic controls, difference-in-differences, or incrementality testing
  • Big data experience with Scala and Spark
  • Systems programming experience in Zig or similar (C, C++, Rust)
  • Reinforcement learning or bandit algorithms in production
  • Experience building agentic AI systems or LLM-powered workflows
  • MLOps experience: model deployment, monitoring, and pipeline orchestration on AWS

Skills

PythonMachine LearningStatisticsReal-Time BiddingCampaign OptimizationCausal InferenceScalaSparkAWSMLOps

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