Staff Data Scientist, Trust and Safety

Pinterest

Location
San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US
Salary range
USD $164,695 – $339,078 base
Workplace
Remote
Level
Senior / Staff IC
Job family
Data & Analytics
Posted
Last week

The T&S Network estimates this role to be P4, Staff. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $180k to $230k 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: the posting states the level in its title · the title reads as P4 · asks for 10+ years · posts $165k to $339k base at a company of 500 to 5,000 for a remote role · 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.

Data science work inside Pinterest's Trust and Safety and Content Quality organization, shaping how the platform measures and manages risk across products used by pinners, creators, advertisers and merchants. The team's goal is to move from reactive moderation and lagging harm reporting to a proactive, metrics-driven approach that tracks leading indicators predicting risk.

What you'd do

  • Map the Trust and Safety platform's full funnel to quantify opportunities and risks at each stage
  • Own projects aimed at safety gains at each stage of the funnel
  • Design and productionize ML and evaluation frameworks for measurement, recommendation and forecasting
  • Set instrumentation and experimentation best practices and communicate them to product engineering teams
  • Prototype analysis pipelines in cycles so findings can scale to the whole platform
  • Partner with product managers, engineers, designers and researchers to turn insights into next product experiences

What it asks for

  • At least ten years of analysis work on very large data in a quick-moving, metrics-heavy setting
  • Extensive experience with quantitative methods such as machine learning, statistical modeling, forecasting or econometrics
  • Ability to manipulate large, high-dimensional data sets
  • Fluency in SQL or another database language and Python or R
  • Strong communication and influencing skills across technical and non-technical partners
  • Undergraduate degree in computing or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience

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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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Pinterest filed 29.7M moderation decisions with the European Commission for May 2026.

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