Engineering Manager II, Ads ML Training Infrastructure

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.

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

• Collaborate with stakeholders and partner teams across the organization to architect ads ML Training infrastructure solutions to unlock Pinterest ads models innovations.
• Mentor engineers to develop their careers and achieve their goals, from early career through senior level, setting the technical vision, guiding the day-to-day execution, as well as fostering good team health and culture.
• Lead the team to build the next-generation Pinterest Ads ML foundations. Opportunities to use cutting edge ML technologies including GPU, Cuda, Feature Store and LLMs to empower 100x bigger models with more enrichment model features.
• Act as a stalwart of technical quality and excellence on the team, ensuring the solutions we deliver have a high level of polish and reliability.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of management experience, or tech lead experiences in 8+ people team (3+ years).
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience in leading the design of large scale & production ML infra systems and Model Training framework.
• Deep knowledge with building distributed systems or recommendation infrastructure.
• Strong cross-functional collaborator and communicator.
• Strong people development skills. You have helped people grow in their careers.

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 times per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices [SF, PA, SEA,].

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
US based applicants only

$200,436—$350,763 USD

Our Commitment To Inclusion
Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.