Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Trust & Safety

About Pinterest :

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we're on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

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We are looking for a Principal Machine Learning Engineer, a senior technical visionary, to be the Principal Technical Lead for the Trust Engineering team setting up overall technical strategy, unified technical architecture and defining a roadmap for industry leading methodology. 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.

As the Principal T&S Tech Lead you'll be responsible for the technical direction, strategy and health of our Trust Engineering org. You'll ensure that our technology can deliver on the business / product requirements necessary to keep Pinterest safe and positive. This means working with other leads to set and execute a long-term strategy for Trust, aligning the strategy with other clients where it makes sense and communicating to leadership our current status and path to having world-class Trust capabilities. You'll also foster a healthy community where all Trust engineers can learn best practices, collaborate effectively and understand our technical direction.

What you'll do

• 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 including representing needs to leadership and prioritizing projects on the platform teams that ensure high quality capabilities and a world-class Pinner experience
• Scale your 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

What we're looking for :

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here .

US based applicants only

$249,900 — $480,238 USD

Our Commitment to Inclusion :

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