Engineering Jobs in Alameda

Business Overview

KINESSO is the technology-driven performance marketing agency providing actionable growth for both our agency partners and clients. We turn 'action' into 'outcome' for our clients, leveraging our unique capabilities in optimization, analytics, AI, and experimentation. KINESSO has brought together the collective power of what was formerly Matterkind, Reprise, P3, and Kinesso under one collective entity that will serve as the most powerful delivery engine in the industry. We have extensive offerings spanning across performance marketing and data and technology. Fueled by a deep understanding of consumer behavior, we offer an end-to-end engine of planning and optimization while also delivering on data-driven strategy for social platforms, actionable growth in e-commerce, and creating curated marketplaces specific to each client's function and needs. The company has more than 6,000 employees operating in more than 60 countries. Learn more at Summary

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to spearhead the design and development of a next-generation AI Chat Application that will serve as an enterprise-wide assistant. This application will support a diverse range of organizational functions-including HR, Finance, Business Strategy, Ad Tech, and MarTech-empowering employees with intelligent, context-aware AI capabilities to streamline daily work.

As the Staff Software Engineer, you will guide the technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver a scalable, secure, and high-performing platform.

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• Lead Architecture & Development: Define and implement the architecture for an AI-driven chat platform leveraging Python, GCP, and AI services.
  
• Team Leadership: Mentor and guide a team of engineers, driving technical excellence, collaboration, and delivery.
  
• LLM Integration: Build and optimize solutions with LLM foundational models to support natural language understanding, contextual reasoning, and multi-domain workflows.
  
• Partner with Product Owners: Collaborate closely with product owners to assess technical feasibility, translate business needs into actionable engineering requirements, and ensure alignment with overall product strategy.
  
• Scalability & Reliability: Ensure the system is designed with enterprise-grade security, scalability, and compliance in mind.
  
• Innovation: Explore and adopt emerging practices in prompt engineering, multi-agent coordination (MCP/LLM agents), and applied AI to continuously evolve the platform.
  

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• 12+ years of software engineering experience building production-grade applications.
  
• 7+ years of experience with Java (Python experience strongly preferred).
  
• 3+ years of experience leading or managing engineering teams.
  
• Strong grasp of object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
  
• Experience designing and building scalable APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) and modular, extensible architectures.
  
• Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., MSSQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).
  
• Familiarity with messaging and event-driven platforms like Kafka, Temporal for real-time systems.
  
• Strong expertise in GCP and integrating AI services with LLM foundational models.
  
• Experience with AI-powered developer tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude) to improve productivity and code quality.
  
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills, with a bias for secure, observable, and maintainable solutions.
  
• Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum environments with cross-functional teams.
  

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• Experience with context engineering and fine-tuning AI/LLM outputs.
  
• Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) for LLM agent orchestration.
  
• Knowledge of LLM agent frameworks for building multi-step, reasoning-driven AI systems.
  
• Experience in enterprise-grade security and compliance frameworks.
  

We offer a Total Rewards package that includes medical and dental coverage, 401(k) plans, flex spending, life insurance, disability, employee discount program, employee stock purchase program and paid family benefits to support you and your family. The salary range for this position is posted below. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position, market considerations, budgetary considerations, tenure and standing with the Company (applicable to current employees), as well as the employee's/applicant's skill set, level of experience, and qualifications.

It is the policy of our company to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship, genetic information, veteran status, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

The employer will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the American with Disabilities Act of 1990. The job description will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessity. Essential and other job functions are subject to modification. Reasonable accommodations may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

For applicants to jobs in the United States: In compliance with the current Americans with Disabilities Act and state and local laws, if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation to apply for a position with our company, please email .

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 theflexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.

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.

Team & Mission

The Privacy & Conversion Data team is responsible for how the company safely and compliantly uses conversion data to power monetization. We build and operate the core privacy infrastructure behind ads reporting and optimization, including controlled data environments, finegrained access controls, centralized privacy rules enforcement, and deidentification pipelines for conversion data. Our mission is to make conversion data privacypreserving by default-centralized, deidentified, auditable, and easy for teams to use, while maintaining high utility for advertisers and staying ahead of an evolving global regulatory landscape.

Role Summary

We're seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the architecture and technical direction for the conversion data privacy platform, spanning both core Conversion Data systems and deidentification for ads reporting. You'll own the endtoend design and evolution of privacycritical pipelines and services, partner closely with Product, Data Science, Legal, and infrastructure teams, and set the technical bar for how we use conversion data safely at scale.

What you'll do:

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• Lead the technical strategy and architecture for conversion data privacy across access controls, deidentification, deletion, and privacy rules enforcement, driving toward a centralized, deidentifiedbydefault, automated privacy platform for monetization.
  
• Design and evolve core privacy infrastructure including controlled environments for sensitive data, finegrained authorization and policy enforcement, and a central policy repository that consistently governs access across major data platforms and query engines.
  
• Own deidentification pipelines for ads reporting endtoend-from separating sensitive and nonsensitive data, applying deidentification techniques and transformations, and generating privacypreserving datasets, to validating data utility and feeding reporting and analytics surfaces.
  
• Build and improve privacy frameworks and tooling (for both online and offline workflows) that make safe, compliant conversion data usage simple and selfservice for downstream teams, reducing onboarding friction for new datasets, restrictions, and use cases.
  
• Drive operational excellence and compliance by defining SLAs, building robust monitoring and alerting (e.g., deidentification quality, optout metrics, data leakages), leading incident response, and developing performant deletion and leakagehandling workflows that meet regulatory and audit requirements.
  
• Partner crossfunctionally with ads, data, product, legal, and infrastructure stakeholders to translate legal/privacy requirements into technical designs, make clear tradeoffs between privacy and utility, and drive alignment on roadmaps, launches, and policy changes that impact advertisers and users.
  
• Mentor and uplevel engineers across multiple teams, lead critical design and code reviews in privacysensitive areas, and establish best practices and documentation for privacybydesign, deidentification, and largescale data systems.
  

What we're looking for:

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• BS+ in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on largescale data systems or distributed systems.
  
• Strong proficiency building and operating data pipelines and services using Java/Scala/Kotlin or Python, plus SQL; experience with modern big data ecosystems is a plus.
  
• Experience designing secure, reliable systems and APIs, with solid grounding in data modeling, access control, and performance optimization.
  
• Meaningful experience in at least one of: privacypreserving data systems (e.g., deidentification, kanonymity), ads measurement/attribution, or largescale analytics/experimentation platforms.
  
• Proven ability to drive crossteam technical initiatives from design through rollout, working closely with product, data science, and nonengineering partners (e.g., Legal, Compliance).
  
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring engineers, raising engineering standards, and making sound decisions in ambiguous, highimpact problem spaces.
  

In-Office Requirement Statement:

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• We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
  

Relocation Statement:

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

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

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 theflexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.

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.

Pinterest is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our User Understanding team. This team builds and maintains the data and backend systems that drive user modeling, personalization and recommendations-impacting hundreds of millions of users every day. You'll set technical vision, empower a talented group of engineers, and collaborate closely with Machine Learning, Product, and Data Science to unlock better user experiences. We're looking for a leader with deep infrastructure expertise, a passion for personalization and ML-driven experience, and a strong record of delivering ML-enabling platforms at scale.

What you will do:

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• Lead and mentor a team of experienced machine learning engineers in developing advanced user understanding models and systems, which are integral to key Pinterest products across Discovery, Ads, and Growth.
  
• Collaborate cross-functionally with partners in Product, Data Science, and Engineering to define strategy, set priorities, and effectively integrate user insights into core systems and product features.
  
• Drive experimentation and adoption of new user understanding models with product teams across Pinterest, ensuring measurable end-to-end impact on key metrics.
  
• Manage project execution and stakeholder communication, including roadmap planning, technical decision-making, risk mitigation, and progress updates to achieve business goals.
  
• Provide thought leadership in user modeling and recommender systems by setting a long-term technical vision and advancing the state-of-the-art in the field.
  
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture.
  
  

What we're looking for:

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• 6+ years of industry experience in applied machine learning or closely related roles, with experience developing large-scale machine learning for recommendation or ads systems.
  
• 2+ years of people management experience leading engineering teams.
  
• Demonstrated ML expertise with a proven track record of impactful solutions and a deep understanding of large scale distributed systems.
  
• Strong technical leadership, including a passion for driving technical direction, system architecture, and designing robust, scalable ML solutions.
  

In-Office Requirement Statement:

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• We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
  

Relocation Statement:

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

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

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 theflexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.

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.

With more than 550 million users around the world and 300 billion ideas saved, Pinterest Machine Learning interns help build personalized experiences to help Pinners create a life they love. With just over 3,000 global employees, our teams are small, mighty, and still growing. At Pinterest, you'll experience hands-on access to an incredible vault of data and contribute large-scale recommendation systems in ways you won't find anywhere else.

As a machine learning intern at Pinterest, you'll work on tackling new challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. You'll conduct research that can be applied across Pinterest engineering teams and engage in external collaborations and mentoring, while also performing research in any of the following areas: image recognition, user modeling, recommender systems,search, ads, ranking, natural language processing, neural networks, personalization, graph representation learning, and big data analytics.

Note to applicants:

By applying to this role, you will be considered for multiple intern roles open across our various ML teams. Please only apply once within the USA or Canada as multiple applications may delay our recruitment process.

Internships are 12 weeks paid, with fixed start dates in May or June to accommodate varying school calendars. Depending on the team, our summer internships will be located either remote or hybrid in San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York or Seattle offices.

We offer 2 internship start dates:

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• May 18, 2026 - August 7, 2026
  
• June 15, 2026 - September 4, 2026
  

What you'll do:

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• Lead your own project start to finish to contribute in cutting-edge research in machine learning and artificial intelligence that can be applied to Pinterest problems
  
• Collect, analyze, and synthesize findings from data and build intelligent data-driven models
  
• Write clean, efficient, and sustainable code
  
• Use machine learning, natural language processing, and graph analysis to solve modeling and ranking problems across discovery, ads and search
  
• Scope and independently solve moderately complex problems
  
• Demonstrate accountability for the quality and completion of your tasks and projects, collaborating with your team and seeking guidance as needed.
  

What we're looking for:

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• Working towards a PhD in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences or related field
  
• Proficiency in at least one systems language (Java, C++, Python) or one ML framework (Tensorflow, Pytorch, MLFlow)
  
• Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop/Spark) and scalable realtime systems that process stream data
  
• Experience in research and in solving analytical problems
  
• Strong communicator and team player with the ability to find solutions for open-ended problems.
  
• Preferred Qualifications:
  
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  • Publications in machine learning, AI, data science, data analytics, statistics, or related technical fields
    
  • Interest in research and in applying ML to impactful real-world problems on the Pinterest product
    
  
  
  

Why Intern at Pinterest?

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• Meaningful Work: Contribute to projects that impact millions of users worldwide.
  
• Mentorship: Learn from and be guided by experienced engineers and researchers in the field.
  
• Growth and Development: Participate in professional development workshops and networking events to build your skills and connections.
  

In-Office Requirement Statement:

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• 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 may require you to be located near an office for in-person collaboration, and therefore may need to be located a commutable distance from one of our Pinterest offices.
  
  

At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

US based applicants only

The salary for this position is $12,100 monthly.

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Our Commitment to Inclusion:

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 theflexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.

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.

With more than 500 million users around the world and 300 billion ideas saved, Pinterest Machine Learning engineers build personalized experiences to help Pinners create a life they love. With just over 4,000 global employees, our teams are small, mighty, and still growing. At Pinterest, you'll experience hands-on access to an incredible vault of data and contribute large-scale recommendation systems in ways you won't find anywhere else.

Within the Monetization ML Engineering team, we try to connect the dots between the aspirations of Pinners and the products offered by our partners. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and executing a vision for the evolution of the machine learning technology stack within Ads.

What you'll do:

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• Build cutting edge technology using the latest advances in deep learning and machine learning to personalize Pinterest
  
• Partner closely with teams across Pinterest to experiment and improve ML models for various product surfaces (Homefeed, Ads, Growth, Shopping, and Search), while gaining knowledge of how ML works in different areas
  
• Use data driven methods and leverage the unique properties of our data to improve candidates retrieval
  
• Work in a high-impact environment with quick experimentation and product launches
  
• Keep up with industry trends in recommendation systems
  
• Leverage LLMs to enhance content understanding
  

What we're looking for:

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• 2+ years of industry experience applying machine learning methods (e.g., user modeling, personalization, recommender systems, search, ranking, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and graph representation learning)
  
• Degree in computer science, statistics, or related field; or equivalent experience
  
• End-to-end hands-on experience with building data processing pipelines, large scale machine learning systems, and big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop/Spark)
  
• Practical knowledge of large scale recommender systems, or modern ads ranking, retrieval, targeting, marketplace systems
  
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  • M.S. or PhD in Machine Learning or related areas
    
  • Publications at top ML conferences
    
  • Expertise in scalable realtime systems that process stream data
    
  • Passion for applied ML and the Pinterest product
    
  • Background in computational advertising
    
  
  
  

Relocation Statement:

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

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Open date: July 1, 2025

Most recent review date: Friday, Sep 26, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Applications received after this date will be reviewed by the search committee if the position has not yet been filled.

Final date: Wednesday, Jul 1, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

We are generating an applicant pool of qualified temporary instructors to teach regular and Summer Session courses, should an opening arise. In addition to lecturing responsibilities, general duties for these positions include laboratory teaching, holding regular office hours, assigning grades, advising students, and preparing course materials and exams.

We are also seeking applicants for Teacher Special Programs (TSP), should an opening arise. TSP instructors will be responsible for overseeing capstone projects in the Master of Engineering (MEng) program in the Department Mechanical Engineering. This includes: design and propose capstone projects and help match students into suitable projects. Meet with each capstone project team on a regular basis to review results, manage interpersonal aspects, and maintain efficient progress. Provide critical, constructive feedback on students' written reports and oral presentations. Coordinating and participating in the MS Plan II exam of each student at the end of the capstone project period. This pool encompasses engineering science and technology specializations relevant to both mechanical engineering and aerospace engineering.

Applicants are considered for positions as need arise; the existence of this pool does not guarantee that a position is available.

If you wish to remain in the pool after the final date, you will need to reapply.

Department:

Basic qualifications for both positions: Master's degree or equivalent international degree at the time of application.

Additional qualifications for both positions: Ph.D. or equivalent international degree by the start of the appointment and one or more years of teaching experience at the graduate level.

Teaching experience offering undergraduate or graduate courses.

Ability to support the success of all students through inclusive curriculum, classroom environment, and pedagogy

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UC Berkeley is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in our public mission of research, teaching, and service, consistent with UC Regents Policy 4400 and University of California Academic Personnel policy (APM 210 1-d). These values are embedded in our Principles of Community, which reflect our passion for critical inquiry, debate, discovery and innovation, and our deep commitment to contributing to a better world. Every member of the UC Berkeley community has a role in sustaining a safe, caring and humane environment in which these values can thrive.

The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.

For more information, please refer to the University of California's Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment Policy and the University of California's Anti-Discrimination Policy.

In searches when letters of reference are required all letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including when letters are provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service or career center), to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality prior to submitting their letter.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

Unless stated otherwise, unambiguously, in the position description, this position does not include sponsorship of a new consular H-1B visa petition that would require payment of the $100,000 supplemental fee.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.

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• "Misconduct" means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant's previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment or discrimination, as defined by the employer.
  
• UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy
  
• UC Anti-Discrimination Policy
  
• APM - 035: Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment
  

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 theflexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.

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.

Pinterest helps more than 450 million people discover new ideas to help design their life. Our users come to Pinterest to explore ideas and run more than 6 billion search queries every month. Many of these queries represent exploratory search intent and are broad, which means that the search system should be able to deeply understand this intent, and then help people explore content, personalize results, harness visual signals effectively, and show the most engaging content up front. In addition, the team also owns query refinements and modules that help Pinners narrow their search intent from broad exploratory queries, to help them narrow their results down. All of this means that Pinterest search presents a unique challenge quite unlike other search systems and the opportunity to innovate on a product that only Pinterest can build.

We are looking for an exceptional technical leader and engineering manager to help lead the search backend team that spans across Palo Alto and Seattle.

What you will do:

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• The candidate will be responsible for major areas of the search engine for more than 450 million monthly active Pinterest users, including indexing and document ranking, query and content understanding, personalization, ML based retrieval, shopping, videos, as well as infrastructure efficiency and scalability. In addition, the candidate will work on innovative applications of NLP and Vision Models, and other techniques to drive query recommendations, multimodal search, agentic search, multimodal query understanding, and query based module generation and ranking.
  
• Work closely with the other engineering teams in Pinterest to bring superior search experience to our users, such as Search Product, Infrastructure, research and content signals.
  
• Deeply understand the Pinterest search product, and drive the vision for the team.
  
• Provide visibility for senior leadership into the team's global impact.
  
• Partner with stakeholders to expand impact across the company, including product management, data scientists and design.
  
• Mentor and grow managers, leaders and engineers on the team.
  
• Build a culture of excellence and expertise.
  

What we are looking for:

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• Experience leading and working on a large-scale production search, recommendation or ads systems that are based on state-of-the-art machine learning and big data technology.
  
• Applied machine learning experience is strongly preferred. Experience in related fields such as recommendation systems, natural language processing and computer vision is a bonus.
  
• Ability to drive the roadmap and directions of scalable production quality systems end-to-end.
  
• A knack for product and impact on users of a consumer product.
  
• 3+ years of experience in leading/managing a highly impactful ML-based engineering team of 5+ size; 7+ years of software development experience.
  
• Bachelors degree in computer science or related technical field, or equivalent experience
  

In-Office Requirement Statement:

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• 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.
  

Relocation Statement:

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

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Open date: April 23, 2025

Most recent review date: Thursday, Nov 20, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Applications received after this date will be reviewed by the search committee if the position has not yet been filled.

Final date: Tuesday, Mar 31, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

The Blum Center for Developing Economies at the University of California, Berkeley is generating an applicant pool of qualified instructors and invites applications to teach courses in the area of Development Engineering. In addition to core DevEng classes (DevEng 200, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206), new classes may be planned based upon student interest and candidate expertise. Candidates under consideration will be contacted by the Blum Center. The previous pool will close April 9, 2025. Those interested in remaining in the pool must reapply.

Founded in 2006, The Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley brings together academics, partner organizations, entrepreneurs, and business leaders to solve the world's most pressing development challenges. Operating on the notion that a world-class public research university must be a force for tackling society's most persistent challenges, the Blum Center inspires and facilitates interdisciplinary research and problem-solving; teaches students to think critically and optimistically about issues of poverty and development; equips the next generation of social entrepreneurs with the skills needed to design, deploy, and scale world- changing innovations; and advises and trains groups and organizations on methods for fostering a culture of innovation in their workplaces. To learn more about our center please visit our website.

General Duties: Lecturers are responsible for the course syllabus, curriculum development and delivery, student mentoring, student assessment through relevant projects, problem sets, exams, class attendance and participation, and grades. Project-based courses will require working with potential sponsors.

The Blum Center welcomes candidates whose professional and teaching experiences align with our mission to help individuals and communities increase access to resources through economic development and technology innovation.

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Program: academics/development-engineering/

Labor Contract:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent international degree is required at time of application.

Required by the start of the appointment, applicants must hold either a master's degree or higher, or equivalent international degree, or at least 5 years of industry or nonprofit organization experience.

Ph.D. or equivalent international degree or graduate professional degree is preferred in a discipline associated with development engineering (e.g ., development technologies, development economics and business models, impact analysis, design for development, city planning, political economy). Teaching experience in two or more of the topic areas listed below is preferred. Also desirable are a strong track record in developing and implementing new and innovative methods of delivering education and hands-on learning, project-based learning, and experience working with students from a range of disciplines. Leadership experience in professional practice is preferred. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.A.

Topic areas include, but are not limited to:

* Critical theories in global development, engineering, and design

* Human-centered design

* Design for base of the pyramid

* Poverty studies

* Community-based teaching, research, project-implementation

* Innovation studies / theory of change

* Sustainable development

* Social and environmental justice

* Engineering ethics

* Social entrepreneurship

* Innovation in humanitarian and disaster response

* Climate action

* Digital transformation of development

* AI for social impact

* Health technologies for low-resource settings

* Sustainability

* Software for Sustainable Design

* Multidisciplinary project-based courses that engage students in experiential learning to help to solve real-world problems (e.g. STEM Solutions for Social Impact; Hacking for Local; Design, Evaluate and Scale Development Technologies; Mission Driven Start-Ups)

• Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.

  
  

• Cover Letter

  
  

• Statement of Teaching - Please describe your prior teaching experience, teaching philosophy, and future instructional interests. You may include specific examples of how you have supported - or plan to support - student success through curriculum design, classroom environment, and teaching methods.

  
  

• Past Teaching Evaluation (Optional)

  
  

• 2 required (contact information only)

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UC Berkeley is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in our public mission of research, teaching, and service, consistent with UC Regents Policy 4400 and University of California Academic Personnel policy (APM 210 1-d). These values are embedded in our Principles of Community, which reflect our passion for critical inquiry, debate, discovery and innovation, and our deep commitment to contributing to a better world. Every member of the UC Berkeley community has a role in sustaining a safe, caring and humane environment in which these values can thrive.

The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.

For more information, please refer to the University of California's Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment Policy and the University of California's Anti-Discrimination Policy.

In searches when letters of reference are required all letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including when letters are provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service or career center), to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality prior to submitting their letter.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

Unless stated otherwise, unambiguously, in the position description, this position does not include sponsorship of a new consular H-1B visa petition that would require payment of the $100,000 supplemental fee.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.

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• "Misconduct" means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant's previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment or discrimination, as defined by the employer.
  
• UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy
  
• UC Anti-Discrimination Policy
  
• APM - 035: Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment
  

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 theflexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.

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.

Pinterest helps Pinners discover and do what they love. The Content Success team is responsible for ensuring that Pinners see fresh new products, ideas and inspiration in their recommendations and that Content Producers receive value from the platform through exposure, engagement and monetization. We work across different recommendation surfaces (Homefeed, Search, Related Pins, Ads) to develop new integrations and signals. We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager who can drive the team's technical direction, lead the team in developing new integrations and signals for recommendation systems and make an impact on Pinterest's topline metrics.

What you'll do:

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• Lead, mentor and grow a team of experienced backend and machine learning engineers in developing advanced signals, integrations and systems, which are integral to key Pinterest products across Discovery, Ads, and Growth.
  
• Provide thought leadership in content distribution and recommender systems by setting a long-term technical vision and advancing the state-of-the-art in the field. Act as the glue between content acquisition and recommendation pods becoming the expert in both these areas.
  
• Manage project execution and stakeholder communication, including roadmap planning, technical decision-making, risk mitigation, and progress updates to achieve business goals.
  
• Help the team solve difficult technical challenges such as:
  
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  • How to build new ML systems, candidate generators, features and models that can handle millions of new Pins every day with low latency to effectively distribute fresh content and be re-usable across recommendation surfaces?
    
  • How to determine what fresh content our Pinners will be inspired by and predict their future engagement metrics?
    
  • How to identify and remove biases from existing recommendation systems?
    
  • How to experiment with and measure the impact of content acquisition changes on the user experience?
    
  • How to enhance the titles of new content to increase their engagement?
    
  
  

What we're looking for:

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• 7+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years of management experience.
  
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  • developing and deploying large-scale machine learning systems in search and recommendations.
    
  • big data technologies (e.g. Hadoop, Spark) and scalable realtime systems that process stream data (e.g Kafka, Flink).
    
  • applying NLP models and LLMs to content understanding and recommendation systems.
    
  
  
• Experience building and leading high performing teams within a visible business vertical .
  
• Experience working with numerous cross functional partners to drive a collective initiative.
  
• Bachelors degree in a technical field, or equivalent work experience.
  

Relocation Statement:

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

In-Office Requirement Statement:

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• 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.
  

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

For Salaried Employees on Commission If Requisition is based in California or posted to all the United States (remote): For this U.S. based position, the expected compensation range is $120,000 - $180,000 per year, and the expected commission range is $20,000 - $300,000 per year (uncapped)

The compensation range for this full-time position applies to candidates located within the United States. Our salary ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. Within the salary range, individual pay is determined by several factors including performance, knowledge, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Schneider Electric also offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees, inclusive of medical (with member reward points), dental, vision, and basic life insurance, Benefit Bucks (credits to apply towards your benefits) flexible work arrangements, paid family leaves, 401(k) + match, well-being and recognition (including service anniversary) programs, 12 holidays per year, 15 days of paid time off per year (pro-rated in the first year of employment based on start date), opportunity to purchase company stock (eligibility depends on start date), and military leave benefits.

The Construction Sales Representative is a key position within our organization, primarily responsible for developing relationships, identifying opportunities, and selling projects. This role focuses on engaging with existing accounts, attending customer meetings, and networking to drive business growth. The ideal candidate will have experience in automation sales, particularly in the construction market.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and cultivate new business opportunities within the construction sector.
• Prospect and identify potential sales opportunities through effective networking and relationship-building.
• Create and implement tailored sales strategies and tactics for individual sales opportunities.
• Prepare detailed sales quotations and proposals that meet customer needs.
• Participate in annual sales planning to align with organizational goals.
• Generate and deliver impactful sales presentations to clients.
• Process and analyze feasibility assessments and bid/contract documents.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to other team members when necessary.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in building automation sales, HVAC controls, security controls, or building management systems.
• Familiarity with the construction market in the Bay Area is essential.
• Knowledge of SMART buildings, integrated building technologies, and the Internet of Things (IoT) is a plus.