Sr. Engineering Manager, ML Serving Platform
Job Summary
Pinterest is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the development of infrastructure for machine learning model serving and deployment across the platform. The role involves managing a team responsible for building high-performance systems including inference engines, GPU-based models, and monitoring tools to support various ML use cases. Candidates should have experience with large-scale distributed systems, ML inference technologies, and platform engineering. The position emphasizes leadership, technical direction, and improving ML developer productivity in a collaborative environment.
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About Pinterest:
Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. 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.
Discover 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.
The ML Platform team provides foundational tools and infrastructure used by hundreds of ML engineers across Pinterest, including recommendations, ads, visual search, growth/notifications, trust and safety. We aim to ensure that ML systems are efficient, healthy (production-grade quality) and fast (for modelers to iterate upon).
Pinterest is seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager to lead the team that builds the serving and deployment infrastructure for all ML models at Pinterest. Systems include:
- Ultra-high-performance C++ model inference engine for production recommendations and content ranking systems. TorchScript + CUDA Graph models on GPU inference, serving 500+M inferences/second.
- Production GenAI & LLM model inference stack for emerging use cases.
- Model routing, deployment, monitoring.
- Feature fetching, caching, and logging.
What you’ll do:
- Lead the team to deliver continual improvements in advanced model architectures, cost-efficient resource utilization, and ML developer productivity.
- Set technical direction for the team based on company and org priorities.
- Coach and develop talent on the team.
What we’re looking for:
- Experience managing platform engineering teams with many cross-organizational customers
- Experience building large-scale distributed serving systems
- Experience with ML inference technologies for online serving at Web scale
- Experience developing engineering platforms: deep customer understanding
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience
In-Office Requirement Statement:
- We 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.
- This 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. Prefer Bay Area as most ML Serving team members are located there.
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
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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.
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