Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Trust & Safety

Pinterest • San Francisco, CA

82d • $249,900 - $480,238

About The Position

Pinterest is looking for a Principal Machine Learning Engineer, a senior technical visionary, to be the Principal Technical Lead for the Trust Engineering team. This role involves setting up the overall technical strategy, unified technical architecture, and defining a roadmap for industry-leading methodology. A strong hands-on machine learning background, including deep learning architectures, generative AI, low-resource ML (zero shot, few shot), responsible AI, and large-scale deployment and measurement, is required. The Principal T&S Tech Lead will be responsible for the technical direction, strategy, and health of the Trust Engineering organization, ensuring that technology can deliver on business/product requirements necessary to keep Pinterest safe and positive. This includes working with other leads to set and execute a long-term strategy for Trust, aligning it with other clients, and communicating the current status and path to having world-class Trust capabilities. The role also involves fostering a healthy community where all Trust engineers can learn best practices, collaborate effectively, and understand the technical direction.

Requirements

• Deep expertise building large scale ML systems at scale with modern frameworks.
• Knowledge of (and a passion for) building responsible and quality first discovery surfaces.
• Track record of delivering large, cross-functional projects across multiple organizations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally.

Responsibilities

• Develop strong partnerships with product teams to understand and proactively address future technology needs and current developer pain points.
• Champion and drive large-scale, cross-functional initiatives that improve the trust and safety of our platform.
• Act as the ultimate 'customer representative' for engineers on Trust, representing needs to leadership and prioritizing projects on the platform teams that ensure high-quality capabilities and a world-class Pinner experience.
• Scale leadership through both direct mentorship and via best practices, processes, training, and tools.
• Ensure solid technical plans are in place for projects within Trust via direct review or delegation.
• Be the technical point of contact for decisions that impact the whole Pinterest platform and for cross-functional partners like policy, operations, and legal.

Benefits

• Equity eligibility.
• Base salary range of $249,900—$480,238 USD.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees