# Principal Software Engineer, ML & Media Infra 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: 2026-10-29
- Apply by: 2026-12-13
- Apply: https://www.pinterestcareers.com/jobs/?gh_jid=7685466&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/pinterest-principal-software-engineer-ml-and-media-infra/

## About the role

At 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. Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here . Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- A track record of setting technical strategy and delivering company-wide infrastructure initiatives in ambiguous environments
- Deep expertise in distributed ML systems, including production experience with both large-scale training and online inference
- Strong GPU performance knowledge, such as profiling, distributed execution, kernel and memory optimization, compilation, or quantization
- Experience with AI/ML modeling, recommender systems, Ads ranking, retrieval, feature platforms, or similarly demanding ML workloads
- Experience with content acquisition e.g. crawler, content understanding, NRT data processing
- Experience with search and recommendation system, ads serving system

Tags: Data Engineering

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