Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Visual AI

Pinterest is a platform that helps people discover creative ideas and plan meaningful experiences. The Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Visual AI will develop large-scale visual encoders, vision-language models, and diffusion models, build visual reasoning and training-data tools, and collaborate with product and infrastructure engineers to ship AI capabilities to production.

Responsibilities:

• Build state-of-the-art visual encoders, VLMs, and diffusion models that power Pinterest's visual AI capabilities
• Experiment with billion-scale image datasets, backed by large-scale GPU computing
• Build flexible visual reasoning tools such as composed image retrieval, promptable image feature computation, instruction-tuned embedding and generative editing models, and more
• Read research papers, participate in group discussions, and directly participate in brainstorming the company's overall AI strategy
• Help construct data agents to build training data that can be shared across multimodal representation, composed image retrieval, image-editing generation, and visual language modeling
• Collaborate directly with product engineers and infrastructure engineers to ship new capabilities in the core product
• Publish and share your work through conferences like CVPR and KDD, paper submissions, and blog posts
• Mentor junior researchers and research interns within the Pinterest Labs organization
• Collaborate across a team situated across San Francisco, Seattle, NYC, and remote roles