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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Computer Vision

Staff Machine Learning Engineer developing state-of-the-art visual encoders and multimodal models at Pinterest Labs. Prototype visual reasoning tools, train billion-scale models on rich visual-text data, ship to production for recommender systems and VLMs, publish research, and mentor juniors. Requires strong CV/ML background, publications, and PhD or equivalent.

189k – 390k
Hybrid7+ YOEML Engineering

About the role

What you’ll do

  • Prototype state-of-the-art visual encoders that power Pinterest's recommender systems and internal visual language models.
  • Experiment with billion-scale datasets and gain hands-on experience with large-scale GPU computing.
  • Build flexible visual reasoning tools such as composed image retrieval, promptable detection/segmentation, and instruction-tuned embedding and generative models.
  • Read research papers, participate in group discussions, and help brainstorm the company's overall visual generative strategy.
  • Help collect relevant visual instruction training data that can be shared across multimodal representation, composed image retrieval, text-to-image generation and visual language modeling.
  • Publish and share your work through conferences, paper submissions, and blog posts.
  • Mentor junior researchers and research interns within the Pinterest Labs organization.

What we’re looking for

  • Research engineers and scientists with experience building and training computer vision models.
  • Experience with multimodal representations and visual language modeling is strongly preferred.
  • A track record of research contributions (e.g., publications, open-source work) and/or shipping ML models to production.
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale model training and modern deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch).
  • Strong collaboration skills and a demonstrated ability to work effectively in a small, fast-moving team.
  • M.S. or PhD in Machine Learning or related academic areas, or equivalent work experience.
  • Publications at top ML conferences.
  • Experience using Cursor, Copilot, Codex, or similar AI coding assistants for development, debugging, testing, and refactoring.

Skills

Computer VisionMultimodal RepresentationsVisual Language ModelsPyTorchLarge-Scale Model TrainingGpu ComputingComposed Image RetrievalPromptable DetectionSegmentationGenerative ModelsRecommender SystemsResearch Publications

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