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# Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Research

- **Company:** Pinterest
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $189,308.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Information Retrieval, Information Sciences, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Tensorflow, Pytorch, Large Language Models, Information Technology, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** August 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/17795673?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F17795673%2FStaff-Machine-Learning-Engineer-Applied-Research

## About the Role

* MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences or related field
 * 6+ years of industry experience
 * Experience in machine learning/information retrieval
 * Mastery of at least one systems languages (Java, C++, Python) or one ML framework (Tensorflow, Pytorch, MLFlow)
 * Experience in research and in solving analytical problems
 * Cross-functional collaborator and strong communicator
 * Comfortable solving ambiguous problems and adapting to a dynamic environment

## Description

* Contribute to cutting-edge research in machine learning and LLM that can be applied to Pinterest problems, especially search agent, recommendation agent, reason and planning agent
 * Collect, analyze, and synthesize findings from data and build intelligent data-driven model
 * Write clean, efficient, and sustainable code
 * Use machine learning, natural language processing, and graph analysis to solve modeling and ranking problems across growth, discovery, ads and search
 * Scope and independently solve moderately complex problems, * We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
 * This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.


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