[Remote] Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Science

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pinterest is a platform dedicated to inspiring creativity and planning memorable experiences. They are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to work on the visual modeling team, focusing on the development and enhancement of their internal text-to-image generative model, Pinterest Canvas.

Responsibilities

• Prototype new model architectures for Pinterest Canvas, our internal text-to-image generative model. We’re looking for hands-on experience working with diffusion text-to-image models and independent model implementation skills
• 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
• Mentor more junior researchers or research interns within the Pinterest Labs organization

Skills

• Research engineers and scientists who have experience working with generative computer vision models, preferably various forms of diffusion models
• 5+ years of industry computer vision experience
• M.S. or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related areas
• 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.
• Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
• Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

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