Pinterest Labs Research Intern (Canada)

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, C++, Framework, SQL, Natural Language Processing (NLP), PyTorch, TensorFlow, Data Analytics, MLflow

Job Description

As a research intern at Pinterest Labs, you’ll work on tackling new challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. You’ll conduct research that can be applied across Pinterest engineering teams and engage in external collaborations and mentoring, while also performing research in any of the following areas: image recognition, user modeling, recommender systems, natural language processing, and big data analytics. We offer a 16-week summer internship program in our Toronto office.

What you’ll do:

• Contribute to cutting-edge research in machine learning and artificial intelligence that can be applied to Pinterest problems
• Collect, analyze, and synthesize findings from data and build intelligent data-driven model
• Write clean, efficient, and sustainable code
• Use machine learning, natural language processing, and graph analysis to solve modeling and ranking problems across discovery, ads and search
• Scope and independently solve moderately complex problems
• Take proactive ownership over the completion and quality of your tasks and project with minimal guidance from your mentor, manager, and peers.

What we’re looking for:

• Working towards a PhD in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences or related field
• Mastery of at least one systems languages (Java, C++, Python) or one ML framework (Tensorflow, Pytorch, MLFlow)
• Experience in research and in solving analytical problems
• Strong communicator and team player. Being able to find solutions for open-ended problems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Publications in machine learning, AI, data science, data analytics, statistics, or related technical fields
• Strong passion for research and for answering hard questions with research
• Passion for applied ML and the Pinterest product