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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 .
We are looking for a Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer to be the Technical Lead for the Content Quality who will build the overall technical strategy, unified technical architecture and define a roadmap for industry leading methodology. We are seeking strong hands on machine learning background including content modeling, signal lifecycle, and platforms used to enforce signal use with downstream use cases.
You’ll be working with other leads to set and execute a long-term strategy for the team, aligning the strategy with other clients where it makes sense and communicating to leadership our current status and path to having world-class capabilities. You'll also foster a healthy community where all Content Quality engineers can learn best practices, collaborate effectively and understand our technical direction.
Architect and develop a roadmap and processes for building and delivering signals capturing quality and trust aspects of content at Pinterest.
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