Engineering Manager II, Ads ML Infrastructure

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 feature 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. Such as feature store, model serving or training framework.
• Deep knowledge with building distributed systems or recommendation infrastructure.
• Strong cross-functional collaborator and communicator.

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.

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