Pinterest helps Pinners discover and do what they love. Homefeed is the surface every Pinner sees when they open the app and forms the frontandcenter of the Pinterest experience for 500M Pinners every month. The Homefeed Retrieval teams mission is to recommend inspiring & engaging pins for all our Pinners. We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer Engineering Manager II who can drive the teams technical direction strategic planning and . Youll have the opportunity to lead a team that works crossteam on various innovative projects of new product experiences builds largescale lowlatency systems and stateoftheart machine learning models and delivers great impact to our pinners and business metrics.
What youll do:
- Be responsible for major areas of Homefeed Recommendations for more than 500 million monthly active Pinterest users. Potential areas of impact include ML based retrieval L1 modeling candidate generators and infrastructure efficiency and scalability.
- Deeply understand the Pinterest Home product and drive the vision for the Homefeed Retrieval team ensuring the teams work directly contributes to the companys goals.
- Manage and mentor a team of Machine Learning engineers providing guidance and support to help them grow their careers. Identify team needs and hire strong candidates.
- Collaborate closely with other engineering teams at Pinterest to enhance the Homefeed experience for users including Advanced Technology Group Infrastructure Content Understanding and User Understanding.
- Provide visibility to senior leadership regarding the teams global impact.
- Partner with stakeholders across the company including product management data scientists and design to expand impact.
- Build a culture of excellence and expertise within the team.
What were looking for:
- MS/PhD in Computer Science ML NLP Statistics Information Sciences related field or equivalent experience.
- Experience leading and working on a largescale production recommendation ecommerce search or ads systems that are based on stateoftheart machine learning and big data technology.
- Strong experience in related fields such as recommendation systems and applied machine learning experience is required. Natural language processing and computer vision is a bonus.
- Demonstrated ability to define and drive the strategic roadmap for scalable productionquality systems from concept to .
- Strong focus on product impact and user experience within a consumerfocused environment.
- Minimum of 1 year of experience managing a highperforming machine learning engineering team of 10 members.
- 8 years of experience in software development with a proven track record of delivering impactful solutions.
InOffice Requirement Statement:
- We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means were not always working in an office but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
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