Pinterest Labs Research Internship (Pin Labs, PhD's Only)

Key Skills

Analytical and Problem solving, Analytical Techniques, C++, Data Modeling, Graph analytics, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MLflow, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Python Programming, PyTorch, Ranking, TensorFlow

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 12-week summer internship program in our San Francisco, Palo Alto, Seattle and Toronto offices.

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

What you’ll do:

• Contribute in cutting-edge research in machine learning and artificial intelligence that can be applied to Pinterest problems
• Collect, analyze, and synthesize findings from data and build intelligent data-driven 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

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

Applications open in Fall 2023.