Machine Learning Engineer II, Responsible AI

Pinterest

Location
San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US
Salary range
USD $138,905 – $285,982 base
Workplace
Remote
Level
Individual contributor
Job family
AI Safety
Posted
6 weeks ago

The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $130k to $190k at an employer this size for a remote role. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 2+ years · posts $139k to $286k base at a company of 500 to 5,000 for a remote role · the title reads as P2 · sets strategy beyond one team.

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The role, in T&S terms

Written by the T&S Network from Pinterest's posting.

Responsible AI engineering on Pinterest's Advanced Technologies Group, an applied ML team that brings machine learning into the product. The work covers bias and fairness in ML systems, including generative AI, and the safeguards that keep models safe and aligned with Pinterest's policies. The team works horizontally with product engineering and trust and safety teams.

What you'd do

  • Execute projects identifying, avoiding, and mitigating bias across ML applications, including generative AI.
  • Collaborate with trust and safety, user modeling, and content understanding teams on adopting responsible AI practices.
  • Drive adoption and evaluation of ML fairness tooling across Pinterest.
  • Help define and drive technical strategy for responsible AI with senior leaders.

What it asks for

  • Years of hands-on work putting advanced ML methods into live production systems.
  • Track record in responsible technology spanning fairness, ethics, and societal considerations.
  • Familiarity with transformer, two-tower, and LLM architectures in large-scale search and recommender systems.
  • 2+ years working on engineering teams building large-scale ML-driven user-facing products.
  • Master's or PhD in computer science or a related field.
  • Publications at top ML conferences (preferred).
  • Experience with AI coding assistants such as Cursor or Copilot (preferred).

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About Pinterest

Social platforms · Media and streaming · San Francisco, CA · 1,001 to 5,000 people · Founded 2010

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Visual discovery platform for saving and finding ideas.

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