Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pinterest is a platform that inspires creativity and planning for lasting memories. They are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer II to advance vision-centric large language models, focusing on model architecture prototyping, developing evaluation benchmarks, and mentoring junior researchers.
Responsibilities
- Prototype new model architectures for Pinterest VLMs. We’re looking for hands-on experience working with finetuning open-source LLM models and improve their visual perception and tool using capabilities
- Develop new evaluation benchmarks that tailors to vision-centric capabilities such as fashion style recommendations
- Read research papers, participate in group discussions, and help brainstorm our overall visual generative strategy at the company
- Help with collection of relevant visual training data for Pinterest Canvas, particularly to conduct RLHF, targeted fine-tuning, etc
- Publish and publicize your work via conferences, paper submissions, blog posts, etc
- Mentor more junior researchers or research interns within the Pinterest Labs organization
Skills
- Research engineers and scientists who have experience working with generative computer vision models, preferably various forms of visual encoders and LLMs
- 2+ years of industry computer vision experience
- M.S. or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related areas
- Publications at top ML conferences
- 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
Benefits
- Equity
- Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
- Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
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