Sr. Engineering Manager, AI/ML Serving Platform

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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.

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 here.

The AI/ML Serving Platform team provides foundational tools and infrastructure used by hundreds of AI/ML engineers across Pinterest, including recommendations, ads, visual search, growth/notifications, trust and safety. We aim to ensure that AI/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 AI/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. Kubernetes-based provisioning.
• Feature fetching, caching, and logging

• →Lead the team to deliver continual improvements in advanced model architectures, cost-efficient resource utilization, and AI/ML developer productivity.
• →Set technical direction for the team based on company and org priorities
• →Coach and develop talent on the team.

• Experience managing platform engineering teams with many cross-organizational customers
• Experience leading the development of large-scale distributed serving systems
• Experience with AI/ML inference technologies (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow) for online serving at Web scale
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience.

• 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. 

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.