[Remote] Machine Learning Engineer II, Visual AI

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pinterest is a platform that helps people discover creative ideas and plan meaningful experiences. The company is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer II, Visual AI to develop vision-centric large language models, evaluation benchmarks, and large-scale generative models for production using visual-text datasets. The role also involves research collaboration, visual training data collection, and publishing work through conferences, papers, and blog posts.

Responsibilities

• Prototype new model architectures for Pinterest VLMs. We’re looking for hands-on experience working with finetuning open-source LLM models and improve their visual perception and tool using capabilities
• Develop new evaluation benchmarks that tailors to vision-centric capabilities such as fashion style recommendations
• Read research papers, participate in group discussions, and help brainstorm our overall visual generative strategy at the company
• Help with collection of relevant visual training data for Pinterest Canvas, particularly to conduct RLHF, targeted fine-tuning, etc
• Publish and publicize your work via conferences, paper submissions, blog posts, etc

Skills

• * Research engineers and scientists who have experience working with generative computer vision models
• * 2+ years of industry computer vision experience
• * M.S. or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related areas
• * 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
• Preferably various forms of visual encoders and LLMs
• * Publications at top ML conferences
• * Experience using Cursor, Copilot, Codex, or similar AI coding assistants for development, debugging, testing, and refactoring
• * Familiarity with LLM-powered productivity tools for documentation search, experiment analysis, SQL/data exploration, and engineering workflow acceleration

Benefits

• The position is also eligible for equity.
• Flexible work model, with in-office collaboration 1–2 times per quarter.
• Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

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