Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Shopping Ads

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We’re hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to help drive the future of merchant presence and shopping experiences on Pinterest.

This role sits on the Merchant team and focuses on building AI/ML systems (including LLMs) that identify, understand, and surface relevant, high-quality merchants across segments—so Pinners can discover new brands with greater confidence and consideration, and merchants can reach new, diverse audiences.

In this role, you’ll lead LLM-first, evaluation-driven initiatives—near-term focused on agentic workflows, measurement, and operational rigor that strengthen Merchant Integrity and Business Integrity. Longer term, you’ll help advance core relevance capabilities such as merchant/brand affinity modeling and related signals that improve shopping discovery across Pinterest. You’ll partner closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Data Science, Design, and platform teams to take systems from early prototypes to reliable, scaled production.

You will also serve as the technical lead for ML in this space—reporting to a Director and acting as the first ML Engineering hire in this org—helping define the technical roadmap, establish engineering standards, and lay the foundation for scaling the domain and team over time. This is a high-agency, high-impact role with direct levers on user trust, relevance, and shopping outcomes across high-traffic Pinterest surfaces (organic and paid).

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