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At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.\nDiscover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.\nAt Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.\nThrough our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. 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You will join the core visual pod, a collaborative group of approximately six engineers and a product prototyping team, to create specialized evaluation benchmarks and contribute to the broader research community.\nWhat you’ll do:\nPrototype 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.\nDevelop new evaluation benchmarks that tailors to vision-centric capabilities such as fashion style recommendations.\nRead research papers, participate in group discussions, and help brainstorm our overall visual generative strategy at the company.\nHelp with collection of relevant visual training data for Pinterest Canvas, particularly to conduct RLHF, targeted fine-tuning, etc.\nPublish and publicize your work via conferences, paper submissions, blog posts, etc. \nWhat we’re looking for:\nResearch engineers and scientists who have experience working with generative computer vision models, preferably various forms of visual encoders and LLMs.\n2+ years of industry computer vision experience.\nM.S. or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related areas.\n\nNice to Have:\nPublications at top ML conferences.\nExperience using Cursor, Copilot, Codex, or similar AI coding assistants for development, debugging, testing, and refactoring.\nFamiliarity with LLM-powered productivity tools for documentation search, experiment analysis, SQL/data exploration, and engineering workflow acceleration.\nIn-Office Requirement Statement:\nWe 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.\nThis role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.\nRelocation Statement:\nThis position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit ourPinFlex page to learn more about our working model.\n#LI-Remote \nAt Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.\nInformation regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.\nUS based applicants only\n$138,905—$285,982 USD\nOur Commitment to Inclusion:\nPinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. 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