Fall Machine Learning Intern (Advance Technology Group - Visual, Multimodal & Recommender Systems)

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. As a machine learning intern in our Advance Technology Group at Pinterest, you will be exposed to a full spectrum of ML product development. The team focuses on developing cutting-edge technologies for Pinterest's visual understanding modules and recommender systems.. You'll conduct research that can be applied across Pinterest engineering teams and engage in external collaborations and mentoring, while also having opportunities to deploy features to hundreds of millions of users or conduct research applicable for paper submissions. We offer a 12-week fall internship program remotely or in our San Francisco, Palo Alto, Seattle, or New York offices. What you'll do: Develop and launch new user features using unique internal datasets and ML techniques, especially in recommendation systems, computer vision, representation learning, generative AI, and responsible AI. Gain hands-on experience with production ML systems, including algorithmic research, infrastructure, data engineering, training, inference, and product, to deliver innovative solutions. You will be exposed to full-stack production ML systems. Contribute in cutting-edge research in machine learning and artificial intelligence that can be applied to Pinterest problems Write clean, efficient, and sustainable code Take proactive ownership over the completion and quality of your tasks and project with minimal guidance from your mentor, manager, and peers. What we're looking for: This role will be on our Visual Search or Applied Science teams. We are looking for candidates with experience in Computer Vision, Visual Search, User Understanding, Recommendation Systems, Reinforcement Learning, ML efficiency optimization, Generative AI, and LLMs. Ability to work full time from September-December 2025 Working towards a PhD or Master's degree in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences or related field Mastery of at least one systems language (Java, C++, Python) and one ML framework (Tensorflow, Pytorch, MLFlow) Experience in research and in solving analytical problems Strong communicator and team player. Being able to find solutions for open-ended problems. Publications in machine learning, AI, data science, data analytics, statistics, or related technical fields Strong passion for research and for answering hard questions with research Passion for applied ML and the Pinterest product

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.