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Research Engineer – Applied Machine Learning
Novateur stands for Innovation. We value creativity, vision, collaboration, and above all, ambition to innovate. Novateur Research Solutions is an R&D firm located in Northern Virginia, developing intelligent systems that push the boundaries of computer vision, AI, and large-scale learning.
We are seeking Research Engineers to advance the state of the art in large-scale machine learning, spatiotemporal modeling, and multimodal reasoning. Our projects span object tracking, re-identification, geo-localization, chemical and biological defense, and scene understanding. You will work at the intersection of software engineering and applied research, turning novel algorithms into robust, deployable systems.
Responsibilities:
• Prototype and optimize algorithms in computer vision and machine learning.
• Build scalable training and inference pipelines on cloud platforms (AWS EKS).
• Perform data curation, model evaluation, and system integration.
• Collaborate with academic and government research partners.
Requirements:
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Math, or related field.
• Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow and scalable model training.
• Strong background in algorithms and software design.
• Excellent communication and technical writing skills.
• U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident.
Preferred:
• Experience with geospatial data (PostGIS, GeoJSON, QGIS).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and distributed data systems.
Why Novateur?
Join a team that values creativity and initiative. Our engineers have freedom to innovate, collaborate with top researchers, publish research in major scientific conferences, and see their ideas deployed in impactful applications.
Company Benefits:
Novateur offers competitive pay and benefits comparable to Fortune 500 companies that include a wide choice of healthcare options with generous company subsidy, 401(k) with generous employer match, paid holidays and paid time off increasing with tenure, and company paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
We offer a work environment which fosters individual thinking along with collaboration opportunities within and beyond Novateur. In return, we expect a high level of performance and passion to deliver enduring results for our clients.
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.
Within our Ads Performance and Ads Delivery teams, we connect the dots between what Pinners aspire to do and the products our advertising partners offer-building personalized, discovery-driven experiences that help people create a life they love. Pinterest is just over 4,000 employees globally, which means our teams stay small, high-ownership, and fast-moving, with hands-on access to an exceptional vault of data and the chance to build and evolve large-scale recommendation and ranking systems at real-world scale.
We're hiring multipleStaff Machine Learning Engineersacross ourAds Machine Learningorg withinMonetization Engineering. In this role, you'll lead innovation across core applied ML and marketplace technologies that power our ads ecosystem-advancing our ads ranking stack, building the next generation of scalable ads retrieval models, and improving shopping discovery for millions of users. You'll also help shape the evolution of the Pinterest marketplace by designing systems and experiments that improve the ads delivery funnel, inform the utility function, and influence auction mechanisms and ad allocation-using deep analysis of marketplace dynamics to unlock new insights. Overall, this is a high-impact opportunity to define what great looks like for Pinterest Shopping Ads, directly improving both user experience and advertiser outcomes in a uniquely discovery-first marketplace.
What you'll do:
- Design features and build large-scale machine learning models to improve user ads action prediction with low latency
- Drive innovation in personalized Shopping Ads recommendations through advanced modeling
- Develop new methods for inferring user interests from online and offline activity
- Mine text, visual, user signals to better understand user intention
- Leverage multimodal signals (text, visual, user) to better understand user intent
- Collaborate with product and sales teams to design and implement new ad products
- Partner cross-functionally with product, sales, data science, and engineering teams to design and improve user journey and optimize ads performance across all stages of retrieval and ranking
- Build and improve backend systems and statistical models that underlay the marketplace to maximize value for Pinners, Partners and Pinterest.
- Define and implement experiments to understand long term Marketplace effects
- Develop strategies to balance long and short term business objectives.
- Drive multi-functional collaboration with peers and partners across the company to improve knowledge of marketplace design and operations.
What we're looking for:
- Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics or related field
- Experience building production machine learning systems at scale, data mining, search, recommendations, and/or natural language processing
- Experience leading projects and mentoring team members
- Strong mathematical skills with knowledge of statistical methods
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong cross-functional collaboration
- Background in computational advertising is a plus, but not required
This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
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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.
US based applicants only$189,308—$389,753 USDOur Commitment to Inclusion:
Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please completethis formfor support.
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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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.
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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.
US based applicants only$189,308—$389,753 USDOur Commitment to Inclusion:
Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please completethis formfor support.
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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 7+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years of management experience.
- Experience with:
- 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:
- 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.
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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.
US based applicants only$189,308—$389,753 USDOur Commitment to Inclusion:
Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please completethis formfor support.
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Serve as a clinical expert and educational resource for nursing staff and interdisciplinary teams
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Design, develop, and implement clinical education programs using adult learning principles
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Support onboarding, competency validation, and ongoing professional development initiatives
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Mentor and coach clinical staff to promote best practices and high-quality patient care
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Collaborate with leadership to identify learning needs and support clinical practice improvements
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Evaluate education outcomes and adjust programming to meet evolving clinical needs
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Education & Experience
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Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required
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National nursing certification required
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Minimum of two (2) years of full-time Registered Nurse experience required; five (5) years preferred
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Demonstrated experience in curriculum development and application of adult learning principles required
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Licensure & Certifications
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Current State of Texas licensure as a Registered Nurse required
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Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) / Health Care Provider certification required
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What We Offer
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Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits
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Opportunity to support a new, state-of-the-art specialty hospital
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Mission-driven organization with a strong focus on education and professional growth
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Collaborative, team-oriented clinical environment
Job Family: Mechanical Design Engineering
Organization: Data Center Infrastructure Team
Location: Remote* OR Austin, TX
*Requires up to 30% domestic and/or international travel (rare)
How will you make an impact?
We are seeking a highly skilled, technically proficient and detail-oriented Principal Mechanical Engineer with expertise in metal structures, frame design, pipes and fabrication to support the development of power and cooling infrastructure for data centers. This role is critical in designing robust mechanical systems that house and support electrical and thermal management equipment, ensuring structural integrity, manufacturability, and compliance with industry standards.
What will you do?
- Experience designing and integrating hydronic systems including pumps, piping networks, valves, and heat exchangers for data center cooling applications.
- Knowledge of fluid dynamics, pressure drop calculations, and pipe sizing for chilled water and glycol-based systems.
- Understanding of installation constraints, maintenance access, and serviceability in large-scale mechanical infrastructure.
- Design and develop mechanical frames, enclosures, and support structures for data center power and cooling products (UPS systems, battery racks, CRAC units, containment systems, LVS, MVS).
- Perform advanced structural analysis using FEA tools to validate mechanical integrity under static, dynamic, seismic, and thermal loads.
- Analyze load paths, stress concentrations, and fatigue life of structural components to ensure long-term reliability.
- Design metal enclosures with considerations for airflow, thermal containment, EMI shielding, and environmental protection.
- Evaluate and implement new materials, coatings, and fabrication technologies to enhance product performance and reliability.
- Participate in customer engagements and site visits to understand deployment constraints and gather feedback for design improvements.
- Create detailed CAD models and fabrication drawings, including weldments, sheet metal, and machined parts
- Select appropriate materials and fabrication methods to optimize cost, performance, and reliability
- Collaborate with electrical, thermal, and systems engineering teams to integrate mechanical designs with functional components.
- Lead mechanical design reviews and contribute to cross-functional design validation efforts.
- Develop and maintain design documentation including BOMs, specifications, test plans, and engineering change orders (ECOs).
- Drive continuous improvement in mechanical design for manufacturability (DFM), cost reduction, and performance optimization.
- Interface with suppliers and customers to resolve fabrication issues and ensure quality standards are met.
- Support lifecycle management of mechanical components, including obsolescence planning and alternate sourcing.
- Conduct root cause analysis and corrective actions for mechanical failures or field issues.
- Ensure mechanical designs support airflow management, thermal containment, and integration with cooling systems (in-row cooling, rear door heat exchangers).
- Collaborate with compliance and certification teams to ensure mechanical designs meet global regulatory requirements (UL, CE, RoHS, REACH)
- May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned
How will you get here?
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering discipline.
Experience:
- 8+ years of experience in mechanical design and fabrication, preferably in data center, industrial, or power systems environment.
- Proficiency in CAD tools (SolidWorks, Creo, Inventor) and FEA software (ANSYS, Abaqus).
- Strong knowledge of metal fabrication processes including welding, sheet metal forming, and machining is a must
- Experience with structural design for heavy equipment or large assemblies, and familiarity with thermal and airflow considerations in enclosure design is required
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Creative, self-motivated, accountable, and team-oriented
- Able to work independently with minimal oversight
- Proficient in reading, analyzing, and interpreting general business publications, professional journals, technical procedures, and government regulations
- Skilled in writing reports, business correspondence, and procedural guides
- Effective at presenting information and responding to management, clients, and public queries
- Capable of influencing others and sharing best practices
- Comfortable working as part of a global team
- Capable of assessing projects, articulating risks, and developing project milestones
- Familiar with stage-gate processes in project lifecycle management (PLCM)
- Able to mentor less experienced engineers
- Ability to travel both domestically and internationally up to 30%
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Experience designing mechanical systems for data centers, telecom, or industrial power/cooling products.
- Active Professional Engineer (PE) license.
- Knowledge of regulatory and safety standards applicable to data center infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with prototype fabrication and testing; Experience working with global suppliers and contract manufacturers a plus
Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.
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Key Responsibilities
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Serve as a clinical expert and educational resource for nursing staff and interdisciplinary teams
-
Design, develop, and implement clinical education programs using adult learning principles
-
Support onboarding, competency validation, and ongoing professional development initiatives
-
Mentor and coach clinical staff to promote best practices and high-quality patient care
-
Collaborate with leadership to identify learning needs and support clinical practice improvements
-
Evaluate education outcomes and adjust programming to meet evolving clinical needs
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Education & Experience
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Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required
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National nursing certification required
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Minimum of two (2) years of full-time Registered Nurse experience required; five (5) years preferred
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Demonstrated experience in curriculum development and application of adult learning principles required
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Licensure & Certifications
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Current State of Texas licensure as a Registered Nurse required
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Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) / Health Care Provider certification required
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What We Offer
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Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits
-
Opportunity to support a new, state-of-the-art specialty hospital
-
Mission-driven organization with a strong focus on education and professional growth
-
Collaborative, team-oriented clinical environment
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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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.
US based applicants only$189,308—$389,753 USDOur Commitment to Inclusion:
Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please completethis formfor support.
Job Summary
The Learning and Development (L&D) Manager will be responsible for the end-to-end growth of our workforce. You will development, design and execute training programs for supervisors and managers while spearheading our succession planning initiatives across companies and multiple locations. Your goal is to ensure our leadership pipeline is robust, diverse, and prepared to meet future business challenges.
Report To: Director of HR NA
Status: Full Time Salaried Except Employee
Key Responsibilities
1. Leadership & Management Development
- Skills Gap Analysis: Initial comprehensive assessment of development needs to determine a course of action need to fill any gaps.Then conduct regular assessments to continuously identify where supervisors and individuals need the most support.
- Curriculum Design: Create and deliver training modules for new and experienced supervisors and managers (e.g., emotional intelligence, strategic thinking, and performance management). These are to be high-quality, engaging, and relevant training programs, modules, and materials (e.g., presentations, handbooks, e-learning modules, job aids) in which you are using subject matter experts (SMEs) to ensure accuracy, compliance, and relevance of training content.
- Coaching: Provide 1-on-1 performance coaching to those that are chosen to be developed for the next opportunity within the company. From an entry level employee moving to a lead position to a mid-level managers to help them transition into senior roles.
2. Succession Planning & Talent Pipeline
- High-Potential (HiPo) Identification: Develop criteria to identify employees with the potential to move into key leadership positions.
- Career Mapping: Work with individuals to create personalized Individual Development Plans (IDPs) that align with company growth.
- Risk Mitigation: Identify "critical roles" within the organization and ensure at least two internal successors are being developed for each.
3. Program Evaluation & ROI
- Measurement: Use one of many models to evaluate the effectiveness of training (Reaction, Learning, Behavior, and Results).
- Reporting: Present data to executive leadership regarding "bench strength" and the progress of internal promotions as well as data for the evaluation model.
- Vendor Management: Select and manage training providers and external consultants to ensure high-quality delivery.
4. Stakeholder Collaboration
- Collaborate: Partner closely with other facilitators, HQ teams, HUB management, Local HR, and other departments to align training initiatives with business objectives and address specific challenges to ensure alignment and effective execution.
- Key Liaison: Serve as a key liaison between HQ and local entities within the region on matters related to people development and training across all employee levels ensuring alignment and consistency in direction and objectives
Who Are We:
Bitzer Us Inc. is a leading manufacturer of key components used in commercial and industrial refrigeration and air conditioning systems. These key components include compressors, pressure vessels such as condensers and evaporators, compressor packages, and condensing units. Other products include waste heat-to-power equipment that converts excess heat to low-cost electricity.
You will work within the North American HUB which is made up of 4 companies all in commercial and industrial refrigeration and air conditioning systems industry with their primary locations being in Flowery Branch, GA and Syracuse, NY with around 450 employees. You will partner with others within the HUB and with internal and external SMEs to get work done while gaining insight into employees’ needs and deliver solutions that exceed expectations.
You will work out of BITZER US which is conveniently located in Flowery Branch, Georgia 5 minutes off I-985 and will need to be willing to travel. The Company is wholly owned by Bitzer SE (located in Germany), the Company is a private company.
Competencies (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities):
- Instructional Design & Facilitation: In-depth understanding of adult learning principles and ability to design and deliver impactful, learner-centered programs.
- Communication & Presentation: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex topics clearly to diverse audiences
- Strategic HR Acumen: Strong understanding of HR best practices, labor law, and organizational development frameworks.
- Project Management: Ability to manage multiple development projects with efficiency, accuracy, and stakeholder involvement.
- Analytical Thinking: Skilled in using data to assess training needs and outcomes and make informed decisions.
- Cultural Agility & Change Leadership: Ability to work across cultures and lead change with resilience, vision, and empathy.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Experience: 5+ years in L&D, Talent Management, or HR, with a specific focus on leadership training.
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to see how a training session today impacts the company’s leadership structure three years from now.
- Communication: Exceptional facilitation and public speaking skills; able to command a room of senior executives.
- Tech Savvy: Proficiency with Learning Management Systems (LMS) and talent tracking software.
Work Environment:
- Corporate and training facility environments with frequent collaboration across global and regional teams.
- Occasional travel within the designated region mostly to Syracuse NY for training delivery and stakeholder meetings and maybe yearly to Germany.
- May require work outside standard hours during peak project periods.
Physical Demands:
- Ability to sit or stand for prolonged periods while delivering training.
- Must be able to lift training materials or equipment up to 25 lbs. occasionally.
- Frequent use of a computer and presentation tools.
Employee Benefits:
- Medical Insurance (heavily subsidized by the Company)
- Dental Insurance
- Company paid Vision Insurance, $50,000 life insurance and Short and Long-Term Disability
- 3 Weeks Paid Vacation
- 401(k) Plan where it matches dollar-for-dollar up to 4% of compensation; 100% vested immediately.
- Company Discretionary Profit-Sharing Contribution based on the profitability of the Company; 100% vested after 6 years on a graded scale
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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.Employees are required to follow any job-related instructions and to perform job-related duties requested by management. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodations. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required.
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The IBM Consulting Learning and Knowledge (L&K) Americas Lead will be accountable for overall skills growth for our client-facing Consulting staff in the Americas and local execution of the global L&K strategy. This role will manage local L&K resources, be responsible for the Americas L&K budget, and coordinate with business leaders, L&K’s worldwide portfolio teams, and several shared services functions to ensure that priority education and credential needs are met within the budget.
Key responsibilities include engaging with Geography stakeholders to understand their needs and priorities, raising those needs with L&K’s global portfolio leads/senior strategists, end-to-end budget management, and delivering quality education aligned to business priorities and the broader people strategy.
Your role and responsibilitiesEngage Geography stakeholders (Geo General Manager, Operations Leader, Market Leaders Service Line leaders, etc.) as well as peers from within the Geo Talent Supply Chain (HR, Workforce Management, Talent Acquisition) as the "primary face of L&K" to the Geography.
Team with other L&K roles (Portfolio Leads, Lead Learning Strategists, Delivery Leads, Shared Services Learning Consultants) in our organizational matrix to ensure coordination and alignment.
Manage the L&K Geography budget, securing initial requirements in the Fall Plan, engaging with Geography leadership and Finance to agree a committed budget, manage budget changes through quarters and ensure the overall program stays within the annual/quarterly budget envelopes - all requiring close coordination with business operations leads as well as the various L&K Portfolio and Shared Services teams.
Lead the L&K team in the Geography, including L&K Geo Operations/Finance and L&K Market Leaders. They will also serve as in-country managers for Faculty and Event Management support resources who are in the Shared Service teams.
Oversee annual and quarterly education requirements capture and prioritization, working closely with L&K Portfolio and L&K Shared Services teams.
Ensure quality education delivery that meets the prioritized Geography requirements and fits within the budget envelope. This will requirement close collaboration with L&K Portfolio and L&K Shared Services teams, who will be responsible for staffing and delivering the education programs.
Leaders are expected to spend time with their teams and clients and therefore are generally expected to be in the workplace a minimum of three days a week, subject to business needs.
Required technical and professional expertise10+ years of experience in a services environment, preferably technology consulting. Preference for candidates with both significant client service and learning leadership experience.
Proven track record executing complex education deployment programs: Conferences, large and medium-sized face-to-face events, connected classrooms, virtual classrooms, self-studies, etc.
Subject Matter Expertise in applied adult learning theory.
Proven people and program management skills in complex environments, ensuring successful execution and alignment with organizational goals.
Deep senior stakeholder management skills and experience.
Ability to collaborate across a multi-dimensional matrix, working effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders across time zones
Demonstrated leadership experience in a large-scale corporate education leadership role, including people management (preference in a services environment).
Proven ability to influence and build effective relationships with senior business leaders.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
Experience deploying education solutions in large, complex organizations.
Substantial experience delivering training (as an instructor).
Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Proven experience working in cross-cultural, global, and virtual environments.
Ability to keep multiple projects moving forward in parallel while maintaining focus on key objectives.
Familiarity with L&K processes, systems, and tools (preferred).
Relevant graduate degree preferred.
Multilingual (Proficiency in Spanish and/or Portuguese valued).
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
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