Description
About Pinterest
At Pinterest, we're on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. We're looking for a technical leader and engineering manager to help lead the search backend team.
The search backend team is responsible for major areas of the search engine, including indexing and document ranking, query and content understanding, personalization, ML based retrieval, shopping, videos, as well as infrastructure efficiency and scalability. The team also works on innovative applications of NLP and Vision Models, and other techniques to drive query recommendations, multimodal search, agentic search, multimodal query understanding, and query based module generation and ranking.
Responsibilities
- Lead the search backend team to develop and maintain a scalable and efficient search engine
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to bring superior search experience to users
- Drive the vision for the team and provide visibility for senior leadership into the team's global impact
- Partner with stakeholders to expand impact across the company
- Mentor and grow managers, leaders and engineers on the team
Requirements
- Experience leading and working on a large-scale production search, recommendation or ads systems
- Applied machine learning experience is strongly preferred
- Ability to drive the roadmap and directions of scalable production quality systems end-to-end
- A knack for product and impact on users of a consumer product
- 3+ years of experience in leading/managing a highly impactful ML-based engineering team of 5+ size; 7+ years of software development experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or related technical field, or equivalent experience
- Experience using Cursor, Copilot, Codex, or similar AI coding assistants for development, debugging, testing, and refactoring
- Familiarity with LLM-powered productivity tools for documentation search, experiment analysis, SQL/data exploration, and engineering workflow acceleration
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.
Relocation Statement
This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
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