Engineering Jobs in Alameda

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.

About tvScientific

tvScientific is the first and only CTV advertising platform purpose-built for performance marketers. We leverage massive data and cutting-edge science to automate and optimize TV advertising to drive business outcomes. Our solution combines media buying, optimization, measurement, and attribution in one, efficient platform. Our platform is built by industry leaders with a long history in programmatic advertising, digital media, and ad verification who have now purpose-built a CTV performance platform advertisers can trust to grow their business.

We are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to build out our simulation and AI capabilities. You'll design and implement systems that model the CTV advertising ecosystem - auction dynamics, bidding strategies, campaign outcomes, and counterfactual scenarios - and develop AI-driven tools that accelerate how we build, test, and deploy ML systems.

What you'll do:

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• Design and build simulation environments that model CTV auction mechanics, inventory supply, and advertiser competition
  
• Develop counterfactual and what-if frameworks for evaluating bidding strategies, budget allocation, and pacing algorithms offline
  
• Build AI agents that explore strategy spaces, generate hypotheses, and automate experimentation within simulated environments
  
• Use LLMs and generative AI to accelerate internal ML workflows - synthetic data generation, code generation, automated analysis, and rapid prototyping
  
• Use simulation to de-risk ML model deployments - validate new bidding and optimization strategies before they touch live traffic
  
• Define the technical direction for simulation and AI infrastructure and mentor engineers on the team
  

What we're looking for:

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• Strong production Python skills and experience building simulation or modeling systems
  
• Deep understanding of probabilistic modeling, stochastic processes, or agent-based simulation
  
• Hands-on experience with modern AI tools: LLMs, code generation, agentic workflows - and good judgment about when they help vs. when they don't
  
• Adtech experience: you understand auction theory, RTB mechanics, and the dynamics of programmatic advertising
  
• Ability to translate business questions ("what happens if we change our bid strategy?") into rigorous simulation frameworks
  
• Clear written communication: you'll be defining new technical directions and need to bring others along
  
• Ownership: you scope, design, and ship systems end-to-end with minimal direction
  
• Nice-to-Haves:
  
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  • Causal inference - uplift modeling, synthetic controls, difference-in-differences, or incrementality testing
    
  • Experience with discrete event simulation, Monte Carlo methods, or digital twins
    
  • Reinforcement learning - using simulated environments for policy learning and evaluation
    
  • Experience building agentic AI systems or multi-agent simulations
    
  • Big data experience with Scala and Spark
    
  • Systems programming experience in Zig or similar (C, C++, Rust)
    
  • MLOps experience - model deployment, monitoring, and pipeline orchestration on AWS
    
  
  
  

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.

About tvScientific

tvScientific is the first and only CTV advertising platform purpose-built for performance marketers. We leverage massive data and cutting-edge science to automate and optimize TV advertising to drive business outcomes. Our solution combines media buying, optimization, measurement, and attribution in one, efficient platform. Our platform is built by industry leaders with a long history in programmatic advertising, digital media, and ad verification who have now purpose-built a CTV performance platform advertisers can trust to grow their business.

As a Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at tvScientific, you'll build the ML and AI systems behind our Connected TV ad-buying platform: real-time bidding, campaign optimization, and incrementality measurement at scale. We're an adtech company solving a hard problem: making CTV advertising actually measurable. Our platform helps advertisers buy ads across the CTV ecosystem: Hulu, Pluto TV, Disney+, HBO Max, and hundreds of FAST channels: and prove that those ads drove real business outcomes.

What you'll do:

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• Write production Python that powers real-time bidding, model training, and campaign optimization
  
• Train, deploy, and monitor ML models that decide which ads to show, when, and at what price: millions of bid decisions per second
  
• Build and improve our incrementality measurement systems: helping advertisers understand the true causal lift of their CTV spend
  
• Design and implement new ML products across the ad-buying lifecycle: audience targeting, bid optimization, pacing, and attribution
  
• Use LLMs and generative AI to build internal tools that accelerate how we develop, test, and ship ML systems
  
• Serve as a technical lead and mentor on a distributed engineering team
  

What we're looking for:

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• Strong production Python skills: you write code that runs in prod, not just notebooks
  
• Solid statistics and ML fundamentals: you can reason about experiment design, model evaluation, and when simpler approaches beat complex ones
  
• Familiarity with modern AI tools and good judgment about where they add value
  
• Adtech or CTV experience: familiarity with RTB, programmatic advertising, supply-path optimization
  
• Clear written communication: we're a distributed team and writing is how decisions get made
  
• Comfort with ambiguity: you'll own problems end-to-end in a fast-moving environment, from scoping to shipping
  
• Nice-to-Haves:
  
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  • Teaching experience
    
  • Causal inference: uplift modeling, synthetic controls, difference-in-differences, or incrementality testing
    
  • Big data experience with Scala and Spark
    
  • Systems programming experience in Zig or similar (C, C++, Rust)
    
  • Reinforcement learning or bandit algorithms in production
    
  • Experience building agentic AI systems or LLM-powered workflows
    
  • MLOps experience: model deployment, monitoring, and pipeline orchestration on AWS
    
  
  
  

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.
  

#LI-SM4

#LI-REMOTE

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 helps Pinners discover and do what they love. Homefeed is literally the first surface Pinners see when they open the app and so it forms the front-and-center of the Pinterest experience for 400M+ pinners every month. The Homefeed Relevance team's mission is to recommend inspiring & engaging pins for all our Pinners. We are looking for a Tech Lead Architect who can drive cross-team engineering efforts for shipping ML-driven product experiences to our pinners. You'll have the opportunity to work on various innovative projects of new product experiences, build large-scale low-latency systems and state-of-the-art machine learning models, and deliver great impact to our pinners and business metrics.

What you'll do:

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• Improve relevance and the user experience on Homefeed
  
• Work on state-of-the-art large-scale applied machine learning projects
  
• Improve the efficiency and reliability of large-scale data processing and ML inference pipeline
  
• Improve our engineering systems to improve the latency, capacity, stability and reduce infra cost
  

What we're looking for:

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• Languages: Python, Java
  
• Machine Learning: PyTorch, Tensorflow
  
• Big data processing: Spark, Hive, MapReduce
  
• 7+ years experience with Recommender system or User modeling, implementing production ML systems at scale
  
• 7+ years experience with large scale distributed backend service
  
• Experience in working in Deep learning and Generative AI models
  
• Experience in closely collaborating with product managers / designers to ship ML-driven user-facing product
  
• Bachelors in computer science or equivalent 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.
  

#LI-REMOTE

#LI-DM57

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.

About tvScientific

tvScientific is the first and only CTV advertising platform purpose-built for performance marketers. We leverage massive data and cutting-edge science to automate and optimize TV advertising to drive business outcomes. Our solution combines media buying, optimization, measurement, and attribution in one, efficient platform. Our platform is built by industry leaders with a long history in programmatic advertising, digital media, and ad verification who have now purpose-built a CTV performance platform advertisers can trust to grow their business.

tvScientific is looking for a Senior MLOps Engineer! You'll be working with a distributed engineering team on our Connected TV ad-buying platform, as we scale our Machine Learning practice. We've cracked the code on optimizing TV ad campaigns. We're scaling massively and we need your help to make that scale sustainable.

An Idealab company, tvScientific was co-founded by executives with deep roots in programmatic advertising and digital media. tvScientific helps our clients buy ads across the CTV universe, from Hulu to PlutoTV to the ad-supported tier of Disney+ and (HBO) Max. Since our acquisition by Pinterest, we're expanding our work on CTV to lift search & social advertising performance.

What you'll do:

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• Scale the decisionmaking process for tools for the tvScientific AI team, from our workflows to our training infrastructure to our Kubernetes deployments
  
• Improve the developer experience for the data science team
  
• Upgrade our observability tooling
  
• Serve as a technical lead and mentor to the team
  
• Make every deployment smooth as our infrastructure evolves.
  

What we're looking for:

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• Deep understanding of Linux
  
• Excellent writing skills
  
• A systems-oriented mindset
  
• Experience in high-performance software (RTB, HFT, etc.)
  
• Software engineering experience + reliability (e.g. CI/CD) expertise
  
• Strong observability instincts
  
• Nice-To-Haves:
  
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  • Reverse-engineering experience
    
  • Terraform, EKS, or MLOps experience
    
  • Python, Scala, or Zig experience
    
  • NixOS experience
    
  • Adtech or CTV experience
    
  • Experience deploying a distributed system across multiple clouds
    
  • Experience in hard real-time low-latency (

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.

About tvScientific

tvScientific is the first and only CTV advertising platform purpose-built for performance marketers. We leverage massive data and cutting-edge science to automate and optimize TV advertising to drive business outcomes. Our solution combines media buying, optimization, measurement, and attribution in one, efficient platform. Our platform is built by industry leaders with a long history in programmatic advertising, digital media, and ad verification who have now purpose-built a CTV performance platform advertisers can trust to grow their business.

As a Senior Backend Engineer with expertise in Python, you will collaborate with a small team of remote engineers to enhance our flagship customer-facing product. You should possess a deep understanding of fundamental engineering principles and have practical experience in web development, automated testing, version control, continuous deployment, infrastructure management, and agile planning.

This role is ideal for someone who's ready to go beyond shipping features, who acts as a force multiplier for the team by helping to shape architecture, elevate technical quality, and support the Engineering Manager in mentorship and planning. You won't be responsible for direct people management, but you'll be a go-to partner in helping the team grow, unblock, and thrive.

What you'll do:

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• Own and deliver key product features from design through deployment, working closely with design, product, and other stakeholders.
  
• Mentor and support engineers, offering guidance and helping to reinforce high engineering standards across the team.
  
• Collaborate closely with design, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver a user-friendly and engaging product for our customers.
  
• Ship high-performing and resilient APIs that adhere to industry standards and are delightful to use.
  
• Step into a technical lead role on projects as needed, coordinating across functions and guiding execution without formal authority.
  
• Maintain a high standard of quality across our codebase by advocating for cleanliness, readability, speed, testability, and documentation.
  
• Champion software quality, emphasizing readability, reliability, testability, and documentation.
  

What we're looking for:

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• Experience working with Python backends (ideally Django).
  
• Exceptional remote communication skills. Especially in writing.
  
• The ability to work autonomously in a startup environment; you thrive under pressure and are comfortable adapting to rapidly evolving plans.
  
• Proven production experience working with a relational database (we use MySQL). Bonus points for experience working with other types of datastores or backing services.
  
• A rigorous approach to software quality. You like to write tests.
  
• A knack for learning new technologies, strong problem-solving skills, and an openness to creative solutions.
  
• A genuine passion for crafting reliable web applications. You get it right the first time.
  
• Computer Science degree or equivalent.
  
• Nice-to-Haves:
  
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  • Adtech Experience.
    
  • Specific Domain Experience in CTV.
    
  • Familiarity with AWS services, experience working in a microservice architecture or with containerization technologies.
    
  • Previous involvement in a production environment with a customer-facing reporting and analytics system.
    
  • Experience working with other types of datastores or backing services, like Redis.
    
  
  
  

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:

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

#LI-SM4

#LI-REMOTE

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 helps Pinners discover and do what they love. Core Engineering touches every surface the Pinner sees across the app and forms the front-and-center of the Pinterest experience for 500M+ Pinners every month. The Core team's mission is to recommend inspiring & engaging pins for all our Pinners. We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer Engineering Manager II who can drive the team's technical direction, strategic planning and execution. You'll have the opportunity to lead a team that works cross-team on various innovative projects of new product experiences, builds large-scale low-latency systems and state-of-the-art machine learning models, and delivers great impact to our pinners and business metrics.

What you'll do:

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• Be responsible for major areas of search, recommendations, notifications, etc for more than 500 million monthly active Pinterest users. Potential areas of impact include ML based retrieval, multi domain ranking, L1 modeling, candidate generators, sequence modeling, relevance modeling, and infrastructure efficiency and scalability.
  
• Deeply understand the Pinterest product and drive the vision for the team, ensuring the team's work directly contributes to the company's goals.
  
• Manage and mentor a team of Machine Learning engineers (L13 - L16), providing technical guidance and support to help them grow their careers. Identify team needs and hire strong candidates.
  
• Collaborate closely with other engineering teams at Pinterest to enhance the experience for users, including Advanced Technology Group, Infrastructure, Content Understanding and User Understanding.
  
• Provide visibility to senior leadership regarding the team's global impact.
  
• Partner with stakeholders across the company, including product management, data scientists, and design, to shape the future of the content ecosystem and personalization at Pinterest.
  
• Build a culture of excellence and expertise within the team.
  

What we're looking for:

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• MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences, related field, or equivalent experience.
  
• Experience leading and working on a large-scale production recommendation, e-commerce, search or ads systems that are based on state-of-the-art machine learning and big data technology.
  
• Strong experience in related fields such as recommendation systems and applied machine learning experience is required. Natural language processing and computer vision is a bonus.
  
• Demonstrated ability to define and drive the strategic roadmap for scalable, production-quality systems from concept to execution.
  
• Strong focus on product impact and user experience within a consumer-focused environment.
  
• Minimum of 1 year of experience managing a high-performing machine learning engineering team of 10+ members.
  
• 8+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record of delivering impactful solutions.
  

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:

• 
  
• 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.
  

#LI-REMOTE

#LI-DM57

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: August 20, 2025

Most recent review date: Thursday, Sep 4, 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: Thursday, Aug 20, 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 Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley is generating an applicant pool of qualified temporary instructors to teach regular and Summer Session courses, should an opening arise. In addition to classroom/laboratory teaching and preparation, general duties may include (but are not limited to) managing and mentoring graders and/or graduate student instructors (teaching assistants), holding office hours, assigning grades, advising students, preparing course materials (e.g., syllabus), and maintaining a course website.

We are also seeking applicants for hourly Teacher Special Programs (TSP), should an opening arise. The TSP instructor's principal responsibility will be overseeing capstone projects in the Master of Engineering (MEng) program of the Nuclear Engineering Department. This will include the following tasks: Designing and proposing capstone projects. Helping match students into suitable projects. Meeting 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.

Department:

Master's degree or equivalent international degree at the time of application.

For Lecturers: Five years of experience in industry or a

research institute, or a Ph.D. or equivalent international degree by the start of the appointment.

For TSPs: Two years of experience in industry or a research

institute, or a Ph.D. or equivalent international degree by the start of the appointment.

Lecturer Positions:

Demonstrated excellence in teaching

Experience teaching college-level courses

A higher-level degree and/or prior teaching experience is preferred in one of the following specializations.

Specializations include, but are not limited to:

Nuclear Engineering

Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Reactions, Nuclear Detection

Radioactive Waste Management

Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Radiation Biological Effects, Dosimetry, Radiation Protection

Radiation Transport, Reactor Physics

Engineering Thermodynamics

TSP Positions: Mentoring experience in one or more of the related engineering fields/specializations or comparable experience/training.

Nuclear

Mechanical

Chemistry

Physics, etc.

Experience in supervising teams of researchers at the graduate level and experience working in industry and/or a research institute.

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

  
  

• Cover Letter - Please discuss prior teaching experience, teaching approach, and future teaching interests. This can include, for example, specific efforts, accomplishments, and future plans to support the success of all students through inclusive curriculum, classroom environment, and pedagogy.

  
  

• Statement of Teaching - Summary of Teaching experience/philosophy for lecturer positions or Mentoring/teaching statement for TSP positions.

  
  

• 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.
  
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• 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.

We're seeking an exceptional Staff Software Engineer to join our Observability team at Pinterest. This role combines deep technical expertise in distributed systems and data engineering with a product-oriented mindset to build world-class observability solutions that empower our engineering organization.As a Staff Engineer on the Observability team, you'll be responsible for designing and building the infrastructure and tools that provide visibility into Pinterest's large-scale distributed systems, helping thousands of engineers understand, debug, and optimize their services.

What you'll do:

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• Define and execute the observability roadmap, treating it as a product. Understand engineering team needs and translate them into technical solutions with measurable impact.
  
• Architect, build, and scale distributed observability infrastructure (metrics, logs, traces) to handle massive volumes across Pinterest's distributed systems.
  
• Build high-performance data pipelines and storage for real-time and historical telemetry analysis at Pinterest scale.
  
• Champion Best Practices: Establish observability standards and patterns across the organization, making it easy for teams to instrument their services and gain actionable insights
  
• Technical Leadership: Mentor engineers, lead architectural reviews, and influence technical decisions across teams to improve overall system reliability and performance
  
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with SRE, Infrastructure, Product Engineering, and other teams to understand pain points and deliver solutions that improve developer productivity and system reliability
  
• Innovation: Stay current with observability trends and technologies, evaluating and adopting cutting-edge tools and techniques to keep Pinterest at the forefront
  

What we're looking for:

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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  
• Product Mindset: Demonstrated ability to work backwards from customer needs -understanding user needs, prioritizing features, measuring success, and iterating based on feedback. Experience building internal platforms or tools with strong adoption
  
• Distributed Systems Expertise: 7+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems with deep understanding of consistency, availability, scalability, and failure modes
  
• Data Engineering Skills: Strong background in building data pipelines, working with time-series databases, columnar storage, stream processing (Kafka, Flink, etc.), and data modeling at scale
  
• Observability Domain Knowledge: Hands-on experience with modern observability tools and practices including metrics, logging, tracing, and profiling. Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar technologies
  
• Programming Proficiency: Expert-level coding skills in languages like Java, Python, Go, or Scala with ability to write production-quality code
  
• Systems Thinking: Ability to see the big picture while managing complex technical details, balancing trade-offs between cost, performance, and reliability
  
• Experience building observability platforms from the ground up or significantly scaling existing solutions
  
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and technologies (Kubernetes, service mesh, etc.)
  
• Track record of driving adoption of internal platforms through excellent documentation, UX, and developer advocacy
  
• Experience with machine learning or anomaly detection applied to observability use cases
  
• Strong communication skills with ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
  
• Contributions to open-source observability projects, a plus
  

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.
  

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.

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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 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.

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
  
• Keeping up with industry trends in recommendation systems
  

What we're looking for:

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• 4+ 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)
  
• End-to-end hands-on experience with building data processing pipelines, large scale machine learning systems, and big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop/Spark)
  
• Degree in computer science, machine learning, statistics, or related field
  
• Nice to have:
  
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  • Publications at top ML conferences
    
  • Expertise in scalable realtime systems that process stream data
    
  • Passion for applied ML and the Pinterest product
    
  • MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences, related field, or equivalent 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.
  

#LI-SA1

#LI-REMOTE

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: