Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Visual AI

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 isnt just a feature, its 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 .

About the Team

Hundreds of 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.

Within Pinterest, the Pinterest Labs organization focuses on applied ML research and development to power the platform Labs works across a broad variety of AI/ML initiatives, including LLMs/VLM, agent design, core computer vision, multimodal representation learning, visual generative modeling, recommender systems, graph learning, and more

This is the group that develops the foundation AI models that fully leverage the hundreds of billions of Pins and the associated knowledge graphs, and ships new product capabilities to fully utilize these technologies.

We are currently hiring for the Visual team in Labs, which develops Pinterests foundation visual models.

In this role

, youll work with Pinterests rich visual-text dataset to train large-scale VLMs, encoders, and diffusion models from scratch that are continuously shipped to production to power visualization and search capabilities. The team is subdivided into two pods, which share pretraining datasets, training and RL infrastructure, and generally co-develop our visual modeling ecosystem. The visual understanding pod builds the core visual embeddings and token models such as PinCLIP and deeply integrates them with the VLM/LLM/agent