Staff Data Scientist - Signals

We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist to help advance Signals at Pinterest. You will shape the future of people-facing and business-facing products we build at Pinterest. Your expertise in quantitative modeling experimentation and algorithms will be utilized to solve some of the most complex engineering challenges at the company. You will collaborate on a wide array of product and business problems with a diverse set of cross-functional partners across Product Engineering Design Research Product Analytics Data Engineering and others. The results of your work will influence and up level our product development teams while introducing greater scientific rigor into the real world products serving hundreds of millions of pinners creators advertisers and merchants around the world.

What you’ll do:

• Up level technical rigor and operation efficiency for Data Science work in ML Signal development teams through

  • Simulation of online experiments using offline data

  • Signal quality monitoring and model development evaluation

  • Lead holistic measurement for the value of signal

  • Be a thought leader and partner closely with signal leadership to proactively identify opportunities for signal DS org

• Develop best practices for instrumentation and experimentation and communicate those to product engineering teams to help us fulfill our mission - to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love

• Bring scientific rigor and statistical methods to the challenges of product creation development and improvement with an appreciation for the behaviors of our Pinners

• Build and prototype analysis pipelines iteratively to provide insights at scale while developing comprehensive knowledge of data structures and metrics advocating for changes where needed for product development

• Work cross-functionally to build and communicate key insights and collaborate closely with product managers engineers designers and researchers to help build the next experiences on Pinterest

What we’re looking for:

• 10+ years of experience analyzing data in a fast-paced data-driven environment with proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data

• Extensive knowledge of machine learning statistics and recommendation systems to understand signal production and signal consumption

• Experience using machine learning and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch TensorFlow or scikit-learn

• A scientifically rigorous approach to analysis and data and a well-tuned sense of skepticism attention to detail and commitment to high-quality results-oriented output

• Ability to manipulate large data sets with high dimensionality and complexity; fluency in SQL (or other database languages) and a scripting language (Python or R)

• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain learnings to both technical and non-technical partners

• A team player who’s able to partner with cross-functional leadership to quickly turn insights into actions

• Prior Tech Lead and management experience dealing with a complex tech system is preferred

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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