Staff Software Engineer, Trends Engineering

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Pinterest is where inspiration turns into intent and the Trends & Insights Engineering team transforms that intent into products that help advertisers move at the speed of culture. We build the systems and experiences that turn signals from what people are planning saving shopping for and engaging with across Pinterest and the broader digital world into actionable intelligence. By connecting emerging trends from platforms like Pinterest Reddit Instagram and beyond we help advertisers understand what matters now whats coming next and how to show up with relevance.

As a Staff Software Engineer on this team youll lead the technical vision for the next generation of insights products evolving Pinterest Trends and Audience Insights into a unified AI-powered platform for advertisers. Youll work at the intersection of large-scale data machine learning product innovation and ads building experiences that shape campaign strategy creative development and budget decisions across the Pinterest Ads ecosystem. This is a chance to define entirely new products influence the direction of a fast-growing space and help brands tap into culture and consumer intent in ways only Pinterest can enable.

What youll do:

• Set the technical direction for a unified audience-first insights platform that powers Pinterest Trends Audience Insights and recommendations embedded across Ads Manager surfaces.
• Architect scalable data pipelines and systems that generate reusable personalized insights from Pinterests trend audience and content signals.
• Lead delivery of high-impact roadmap bets such as Trends Digest Moments Topics expansion and Product Attributes from prototype to production.
• Integrate LLM-powered capabilities (summarization classification conversational insights agentic review) with strong safety quality and evaluation guardrails.
• Partner with Product Design Data Science and Ads org teams to bring proactive contextual insights into advertiser workflows beyond standalone surfaces.
• Use AI to accelerate prototyping design exploration and code generation iterating across more options earlier while applying engineering judgment and verification to ensure correctness and quality.
• Use AI to synthesize research summarize large datasets and automate repeatable engineering tasks like documentation test generation and data QA checks.
• Mentor engineers across the team raise the technical bar and establish measurement practices that connect insight quality to advertiser adoption and revenue impact.

What were looking for:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science a related field or equivalent experience.
• 8 years of software engineering experience including significant time designing large-scale data or ML-powered platforms that serve customer-facing products.
• Ability to work with cross-functional partners across multiple organizations.
• Hands-on experience building tools and data pipelines leveraging AI coding tools e.g. Cursor Claude Code Codex etc.
• Experience as the product-engineering counterpart on an AI-first product launch from prototype to scale
• Demonstrated experience using AI to accelerate engineering and analysis workflows with a clear approach to validating accuracy performance and quality.
• Strong track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work testing source-checking data validation and peer review.
• Experience leading cross-surface product integrations across multiple teams and organizational boundaries not just standalone tools.

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 understand that optimal work environments are highly situational and vary between departments. Day-to-day expectations shift based on specific organizational needs or the nature of the role.
• In-person collaboration is required once every quarter; candidates must reside within commuting distance of our San Francisco or Palo Alto hubs.

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