# Director, Machine Learning Engineering, Ads Quality at Pinterest

- Company: Pinterest
- What the company does: Discover recipes, home ideas, style inspiration and other ideas to try. Backed by Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins and a16z.
- Company website: https://www.pinterest.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Palo Alto, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-06
- Apply by: 2026-11-20
- Apply: https://www.pinterestcareers.com/jobs/?gh_jid=8258175&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/pinterest-director-machine-learning-engineering-ads-quality/

## About the role

Relocation Statement : This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Minimum 12 years of experience building and deploying machine-learning systems, including significant experience leading managers and multi-team organizations
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale recommendation, ranking, advertising, search, marketplace, or personalization ML teams
- Strong understanding of modern deep-learning and recommender-system techniques, including sequence models, embeddings, multimodal models, multi-task learning, foundation models, distillation, and reinforcement learning
- Experience with conversion, value, ROAS, bidding, or other lower-funnel optimization problems is strongly preferred
- Proven ability to connect modeling objectives and offline metrics to online experiments and business outcomes
- Experience operating production ML systems with demanding requirements for latency, availability, calibration, privacy, reliability, and cost

Tags: EPD Ads and Ads Product

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/pinterest-director-machine-learning-engineering-ads-quality/