Sr. Data Scientist, Trust and Safety
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Pinterest is the world's leading visual search and discovery platform, serving over 500 million monthly active users globally on their journey from inspiration to action. As we scale experiences in a complicated ecosystem, ensuring they are safe, fair, and trustworthy is paramount. We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to help lead Pinterest's Trust and Safety mandate by designing the foundations for measuring the prevalence of unsafe content across the platform.
In this role, you will design and build sampling frameworks, complex data aggregations, and measurement methodologies to track Trust & Safety policy violations across complex, multi-component user interactions. You will work in a highly collaborative and cross-functional environment, partnering with ML Engineers, Trust & Safety Ops, subject matter expert teams, and Product Managers. The results of your work will directly influence platform safety metrics, policy compliance, and executive-level visibility into platform health.
What you'll do:
- Design and develop ML-assisted sampling techniques, applying expertise in statistical methods to accurately measure the prevalence of unsafe content, treating complex multi-component interactions as distinct measurement units.
- Apply rigorous statistical methods, drawing on knowledge of all kinds of sampling methods and their prop
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