[Hiring] Manager II, Machine Learning-Search @Pinterest

Role Description

The candidate will be responsible for major areas of the search engine for more than 450 million monthly active Pinterest users, including:

• Indexing and document ranking
• Query and content understanding
• Personalization
• ML based retrieval
• Shopping
• Videos
• Infrastructure efficiency and scalability

In addition, the candidate will work on innovative applications of NLP and Vision Models, and other techniques to drive:

• Query recommendations
• Multimodal search
• Agentic search
• Multimodal query understanding
• Query based module generation and ranking

• Work closely with the other engineering teams in Pinterest to bring superior search experience to our users, such as Search Product, Infrastructure, research and content signals.
• Deeply understand the Pinterest search product, and drive the vision for the team.
• Provide visibility for senior leadership into the team’s global impact.
• Partner with stakeholders to expand impact across the company, including product management, data scientists and design.
• Mentor and grow managers, leaders and engineers on the team.
• Build a culture of excellence and expertise.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and working on a large-scale production search, recommendation or ads systems that are based on state-of-the-art machine learning and big data technology.
• Applied machine learning experience is strongly preferred. Experience in related fields such as recommendation systems, natural language processing and computer vision is a bonus.
• Ability to drive the roadmap and directions of scalable production quality systems end-to-end.
• A knack for product and impact on users of a consumer product.
• 3+ years of experience in leading/managing a highly impactful ML-based engineering team of 5+ size; 7+ years of software development experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Company Description

Pinterest helps more than 450 million people discover new ideas to help design their life. Our users come to Pinterest to explore ideas and run more than 6 billion search queries every month.