Data Scientist II, ML Infrastructure

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About Pinterest:</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pinterestcareers.com/our-life/pinflex/">flexibility</a> to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.</p> <p>At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.</p> <p>Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process <a href="https://www.pinterestcareers.com/our-philosophy-on-ai-in-hiring/">here</a>.</p></div><p>This role focuses on advancing the science and systems behind ML measurement, feature understanding, and causal inference at scale. The work spans areas such as production feature importance platforms, observational causal estimation in Pytorch, large-scale proxy metric development, and data-driven approaches to ML infrastructure efficiency. We're looking for an enthusiastic individual contributor to perform high-impact technical work across this space. This person will drive foundational innovations, own the end-to-end design of production ML systems, establish rigorous methodological standards, and partner cross-functionally to turn successful research into durable platform capabilities that raise the ceiling for the entire ML organization.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What you’ll do:</strong></p> <p>We are looking for an experienced and highly capable Data &amp; Applied Scientist to help us drive step function improvements in our ML capabilities at Pinterest.&nbsp;</p> <p>In this role, you will:</p> <ul> <li>Translate research-grade DS workflows (e.g., proxy metrics, staleness models) into production ML pipelines using Airflow, WandB &amp; Ray while establishing reusable patterns for other teams.</li> <li>Apply and productionize causal inference methods using the production ML stack (propensity scoring, IPW, TMLE) to address high-stakes