Staff Machine Learning Engineer
PinterestAbout 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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At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.
Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.
The Advertiser and Seller Experience team builds intelligent systems that help Pinterest advertisers and sellers move from insight to action. Our work spans advertiser-facing products such as Ads Manager as well as internal seller productivity tools that help sales teams identify opportunities, prepare customer conversations, troubleshoot campaign performance, and drive advertiser growth. As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer focused on Agentic AI & Recommendations, you will lead the ML strategy and execution for the intelligence layer behind these experiences. You will build recommendation systems, context foundations, and feedback loops that help AI agents understand advertiser and seller goals, surface the right next-best action, and learn from user response over time. This is a high-impact Staff IC role for someone who wants to combine deep recommendation systems expertise with modern agentic AI to shape how Pinterest advertisers and sellers work.
What you’ll do:
- Lead the design and implementation of large-scale recommendation and decisioning systems that power proactive advertiser and seller guidance across Ads Manager, Pinterest Business Assistant, Pinnacle, and sales productivity workflows.
- Build ML foundations for a unified context layer and context agent that transforms campaign, account, perfor
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