Staff Data Scientist - Trust and Safety

We are seeking a skilled Staff Data Scientist to enhance measurement on Trust and Safety within our organization. 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

• Develop a basket of metrics to measure overall health of Pinterest Trust and Safety Platform

• Develop a framework to quantify aggregated incurred harm for unsafe categories such as Adult Content Self Harm Misinformation Hate Speech etc

• Research and develop methodology to improve statistical power of existing metrics and experimentation

• Drive launch review process define launching criteria for Trust and Safety experiments

• Adopt LLM and other state of art techniques to apply on Trust & Safety use cases

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 experience solving measurement problems using quantitative approaches including in the fields of Statistical Econometrics Optimization Machine Learnings or other related fields

• 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

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

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