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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Conversion Core Modeling

Lead technical vision for Pinterest's Ads Conversion Core Modeling team. Build state-of-the-art large-scale DNN models for user action prediction, mine multi-modal signals for intent understanding, and mentor engineers while leveraging AI tools to accelerate development.

223k – 390k
Hybrid7+ YOEML Engineering

About the role

What you’ll do

  • Lead the technical direction and development of state-of-the-art applied ML projects for ads conversion.
  • Design and build large-scale DNN models to improve user action prediction with low latency.
  • Mine text, visual, and user signals to better understand intention and infer interests from online activity.
  • Use AI to accelerate analysis and iteration, while applying judgment and verification to ensure correctness and quality.
  • Automate repeatable tasks such as documentation, reporting, and QA checks to speed up the development lifecycle.
  • Coach and mentor engineers while collaborating with product and sales to design new ad products.

What we’re looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field.
  • 6+ years of industry experience building production ML systems at scale (Search, Recommendations, or Ranking).
  • 2+ years of experience leading technical projects or teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day workflow for relevant outputs.
  • Experience with 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.
  • High integrity and ownership: you protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final deliverables.
  • Strong mathematical foundation and experience with statistical methods and A/B testing.

Skills

Machine LearningDeep Neural NetworksDnnA/B TestingPythonSQLLarge-Scale Ml SystemsLlm ToolsAi Coding AssistantsStatistical Methods

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