Sr. Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
Listed for United States
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Employer listed it 3 weeks ago · Added 3 weeks ago
Been open since 3 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
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Location
Listed for United States
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Contract
Full-time
Experience
Lead
Category
Data
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What the advert says
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- Working hours
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- Where you can work from
In-Office Requirement Statement:
- Contract
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- Experience asked for
5+ years of experience building scalable platforms for distributed experimentation, data and model versioning, orchestration, observability, release management, and production monitoring
- Pay
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Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Palo Alto, CA, US; Remote, US, Palo Alto"
- Job description states: "US based"
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About the role
About Pinterest:
Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.
At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.
Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here .
The AI Platform team delivers essential tools and infrastructure utilized by hundreds of AI and ML engineers across Pinterest, powering crucial functions such as recommendations, ads, visual search, growth/notifications, and trust and safety. Our primary objectives are to ensure AI and ML systems maintain production-grade quality and enable rapid iteration for our customers.
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the AI Platform team, you will shape and scale Pinterest’s AI/ML evaluation platform into a unified, reliable system adopted company-wide. You will identify modernization opportunities, elevate the roadmap, and execute technical strategy of a durable evaluation system for GenAI and ML workloads at Pinterest, partnering across engineering, research, product, and safety to improve quality, launch decisions, and trust in AI-powered experiences.
What you’ll do:
Identify modernization opportunities and scale the roadmap for a company-wide evaluation system in partnership with technical leadership
Define cross-team technical strategy, align partner teams, and drive broad adoption of shared evaluation capabilities
Make durable architectural decisions that improve the user experience and reliability of Pinterest’s AI/ML evaluation platform
Establish evaluation methodologies and standards that balance automated metrics, expert judgment, human feedback, safety, and business outcomes
Lead complex cross-team workstreams, resolve technical tradeoffs and risks, and deliver impact
What we’re looking for:
3+ years of deep, hands-on experience designing and operating evaluation systems for GenAI and complex ML systems, including benchmark design, golden datasets, automated metrics, human evaluation, model-based grading, and failure analysis
Strong programming skills in Python coupled with a solid grasp of distributed systems principles, and comfortable iterating with AI tools on coding and design
Deep familiarity with GenAI and RecSys evaluation libraries and frameworks, AutoEvals, OpenEvals, Ragas, etc
5+ years of experience building scalable platforms for distributed experimentation, data and model versioning, orchestration, observability, release management, and production monitoring
Strong judgment around GenAI risks, including robustness, bias, privacy, security, and the limitations of automated evaluation signals
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
In-Office Requirement Statement:
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.
Relocation Statement:
Requirements
- ·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.
- ·Relocation Statement:
- ·This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
Benefits
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How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Pinterest, mentioning your remote working experience.
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