Job brief: Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Shopping Ads

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Pinterest's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (3 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-07.
• The apply link opens pinterestcareers.com, the address Pinterest's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $222,716 to $389,753 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US · Palo Alto
• Posted: 2026-07-07 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• 8+ years of industry experience in ML engineering / applied ML / software engineering, including meaningful time operating as a Staff-level (or equivalent) IC delivering complex p…
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field—or equivalent practical experience.
• In-Office Requirement Statement:
• By submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my know…

Conditions

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
• Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Main duties

• Own end-to-end technical delivery for cross-team initiatives—from problem framing and technical strategy through architecture, implementation, rollout, monit…
• Build and evolve ML and GenAI systems that improve merchant quality and understanding (e.g., merchant content enrichment, attribute extraction/normalization,…
• Design systems with strong attention to quality, cost, latency, reliability, and safety, including guardrails, fallbacks, caching, and observability to suppo…
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Design, Trust/Policy/Legal, and ML platform teams to align on goals, co…
• Drive experimentation and iteration (A/B tests, holdouts), lead error analysis, and translate learnings into measurable improvements to user trust and shoppi…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in San Francisco, CA: $196k a year (681 listings, 41 employers). This listing is 57% higher.
• Across Pinterest's 136 open listings, 28% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Pinterest hires

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