Staff Software Engineer, Trends Machine Learning Infrastructure
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The Trends & Insights Engineering team builds the products that turn Pinterest's unique signal what hundreds of millions of people are planning, dreaming about, and shopping for into actionable intelligence for advertisers. As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you'll lead the technical evolution of Pinterest Trends and Audience Insights into a unified, AI-powered insights platform that shapes how advertisers plan campaigns, allocate budget, and create content across the Pinterest Ads ecosystem..
What you’ll do:
- Set the technical direction for a unified, audience-first insights platform that powers Pinterest Trends, Audience Insights, and recommendations embedded across Ads Manager surfaces.
- Architect scalable data pipelines and systems that generate reusable, personalized insights from Pinterest's trend, audience, and content signals.
- Lead delivery of high-impact roadmap bets such as Trends Digest, Moments, Topics expansion, and Product Attributes from prototype to production.
- Build LLM-powered capabilities (summarization, classification, conversational insights, agentic review) with strong safety, quality, and evaluation guardrails.
- Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and Ads org teams to bring proactive, contextua
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