Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Ads ML Infrastructure

Pinterest is one of the fastest growing online advertising platforms. Continued success depends on the machine-learning systems, which crunch thousands of signals in a few hundred milliseconds, to identify the most relevant ads to show to pinners. You’ll join a talented team with high impact, which designs high-performance and efficient ML systems, in order to power the most critical and revenue-generating models at Pinterest.

What you’ll do

• Being the technical leader of the Ads ML foundation evolution movement to 2x Pinterest revenue and 5x ad performance in next 3 years.

• Opportunities to use cutting edge ML technologies including GPU and LLMs to empower 100x bigger models in next 3 years. 

• Tons of ambiguous problems and you will be tasked with building 0 to 1 solutions for all of them.

What we’re looking for:

• BS (or higher) degree in Computer Science, or a related field.

• 10+ years of relevant industry experience in leading the design of large scale & production ML infra systems.

• Deep knowledge with at least one state-of-art programming language (Java, C++, Python). 

• Deep knowledge with building distributed systems or recommendation infrastructure

• Hands-on experience with at least one modeling framework (Pytorch or Tensorflow). 

• Hands-on experience with model / hardware accelerator libraries (Cuda, Quantization)

• Strong communicator and collaborative team player.