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Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Ads Quality

Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Ads Quality

CompanyPinterest
LocationPalo Alto, CA, USA, Seattle, WA, USA, San Francisco, CA, USA
Salary$250545 – $438454
TypeFull-Time
DegreesMaster’s, PhD
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Statistics or related field
  • 6+ years of industry experience building production machine learning systems at scale, data mining, search, recommendations, and/or natural language processing
  • 2+ years of experience leading projects/teams
  • Strong mathematical skills with knowledge of statistical methods
  • Cross-functional collaborator and strong communicator

Responsibilities

  • Lead the tech direction and responsible for the development of state-of-the-art applied machine learning projects for the ads conversion modeling team
  • Coach and mentor engineers for the conversion modeling team
  • Design features and build large-scale machine learning models to improve user ads action prediction with low latency
  • Develop new techniques for inferring user interests from online activity
  • Mine text, visual, user signals to better understand user intention
  • Work with product and sales teams to design and implement new ad products

Preferred Qualifications

  • Background in computational advertising is preferred, but not required