Pinterest Machine Learning Engineer jobs
12 US ML engineer reqs plus 2027 new-grad MLE roles, with base posted up to $286K.
The Machine Learning Engineer II role
Pinterest ML engineers build the recommendation, ads ranking, search, shopping and visual models behind 640M+ users. Hiring is rolling per req through a recruiter, hiring-manager and team-interview sequence, plus a fall-opening University Grad and ML internship program.
Dedicated ML titles (MLE, MLE II, Senior, Staff, Principal) on the engineering ladder (IC13–IC19 on levels.fyi) across the Advanced Technologies Group (Responsible AI, Visual AI), Pinterest Labs, Core Engineering, Ads and Applied Science; no AI Engineer or Applied AI track.
Pinterest ML engineer salary
Base: $138,905–$285,982 posted on the Machine Learning Engineer II, Responsible AI req (first published Aug 27, 2026); the band spans US location tiers, and the Ads req posts $163,418–$285,982. All-in: levels.fyi Pinterest Machine Learning Engineer at IC14 (average $335k on n=18), Oct 2026, with the 25th–75th range computed from the 17 published samples; mapping MLE II to IC14 is a convention.
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