Principal Software Engineer, ML & Media Infra is open at Pinterest in Palo Alto, CA; US; San Francisco, CA, US. The posting gives a salary of $285K - $450K. Posted on Oct 29, 2026, and still on Pinterest’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Set the technical vision and roadmap for model training and serving, with reusable interfaces to data and feature infrastructure. Lead architectures for distributed training, fine-tuning, distillation, evaluation, and high-scale CPU/GPU inference. Lead architectures for content acquisition, media ingestion and signal processing. Improve efficiency across data loading, distributed execution, GPU kernels and memory…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Pinterest’s careers page.
Hiring at Pinterest
Pinterest has 163 open roles right now, 74 of them remote. Most are in Engineering, Sales & Business Development and Product. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $250K. See all its roles
