# Sr. Data Scientist, Core

**Company:** [Pinterest](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pinterest)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Data Science
**Salary:** $140k – $288k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, Forecasting, econometrics, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, SQL, Python, R
**Posted:** 2026-07-22

> As a Data Scientist on the Core team at Pinterest, you will apply quantitative modeling, experimentation, and ML to shape people-facing and business-facing products. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Design and Research to drive insights and scientific rigor for products used by hundreds of millions of users.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do

- Develop best practices for instrumentation and experimentation and communicate those to product engineering teams to help us fulfill our mission - to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love
- Bring scientific rigor and statistical methods to the challenges of product creation, development and improvement with an appreciation for the behaviors of our Pinners
- Build and prototype analysis pipelines iteratively to provide insights at scale while developing comprehensive knowledge of data structures and metrics, advocating for changes where needed for product development
- Work cross-functionally to build and communicate key insights, and collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers to help build the next experiences on Pinterest

## What we’re looking for

- 5+ years of experience analyzing data in a fast-paced, data-driven environment with proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data
- Extensive experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches including in the fields of Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, Forecasting, Econometrics or other related fields
- Experience using machine learning and deep learning frameworks, such as PyTorch, TensorFlow or scikit-learn
- A scientifically rigorous approach to analysis and data, and a well-tuned sense of skepticism, attention to detail and commitment to high-quality, results-oriented output
- Ability to manipulate large data sets with high dimensionality and complexity; fluency in SQL (or other database languages) and a scripting language (Python or R)
- Excellent communication skills and ability to explain learnings to both technical and non-technical partners
- A team player who’s able to partner with cross-functional leadership to quickly turn insights into actions
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience

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