Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
$285k–$450k/yr
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 e…
Skills: Technical Strategy, Indexing Infrastructure, Retrieval Systems, System Design, Machine Learning
Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
$114k–$235k/yr
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 e…
Skills: Python, PyTorch, Causal Inference, Ray, Spark
Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
$285k–$450k/yr
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 e…
Skills: Indexing, Retrieval Infrastructure, System Design, Technical Strategy, Machine Learning
Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
$177k–$365k/yr
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 e…
Skills: C++, Golang, Python, Envoy Proxy, CDN
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
About Rivian Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract. As a company, we con…
Skills: Software engineering, Backend development, Distributed systems, LLM applications, Agent systems
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$97k–$130k/yr
Company Description IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to …
Skills: UX design, UI design, Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$171k–$198k/yr
ABOUT QUINCE Quince is a destination for builders, creators, innovators, and operators who want to come together and challenge the status quo. Our mission is simple: make really high quality essentials for really low pri…
Skills: Python, SQL, Machine Learning, Data Science, Automated Bidding
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$200k–$250k/yr
ABOUT QUINCE Quince is a destination for builders, creators, innovators, and operators who want to come together and challenge the status quo. Our mission is simple: make really high quality essentials for really low pri…
Skills: Product Management, Search Relevance, Machine Learning, A/B Testing, Data Analysis
Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
$185k–$210k/yr
ABOUT QUINCE Quince is a destination for builders, creators, innovators, and operators who want to come together and challenge the status quo. Our mission is simple: make really high quality essentials for really low pri…
Skills: Recruiting Leadership, Talent Sourcing, Stakeholder Management, Executive Search, Interview Design
Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
$115k–$193k/yr
We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you …
Skills: UI/UX design, Figma, Mobile app design, Prototyping, Wireframing
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$236k–$315k/yr
The Navan Sales team is looking to add a superstar Strategic Account Executive to the team with knowledge of technology and solid business-to-business sales. This individual will be an early member of our Enterprise Sale…
Skills: Strategic Account Management, B2B Sales, Enterprise Sales, SaaS Sales, Prospecting
Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
$250k–$400k/yr
About Turing Turing’s mission is to accelerate superintelligence to drive real economic progress. Headquartered in San Francisco, Turing works with frontier AI labs to generate high-quality datasets, reinforcement learni…
Skills: Reinforcement learning, Python, SQL, Engineering management, Data pipelines
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
Rhombus Power, Inc. delivers AI-powered predictive intelligence in real time for defense and national security organizations worldwide. Our mission-built products— Ambient AI and Guardian— are transforming strategic, ope…
Skills: DevOps, Linux, Networking, CI/CD, Docker
Instrumental Inc.Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$140k–$165k/yr
Instrumental builds the manufacturing acceleration platform behind the world’s most complex electronics. We capture digital exhaust and engineering context from assembly lines—images, test logs, BOM data, performance, re…
Skills: AWS, Site Reliability Engineering, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$123k–$185k/yr
About the role Rubrik's Customer Success and Renewals organization is the operational backbone that keeps our retention and growth motions running as a measurable, automated, insight-driven system. We're looking for a se…
Skills: Customer Success Operations, Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, SQL, Tableau
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$158k–$237k/yr
About Team Rubrik Atlas is the core data path for all Rubrik products, whether in the data center, at the edge, or in the cloud. It is a distributed, scale-out, fault tolerant, performant, deduplicated user-space filesys…
Skills: Distributed systems, C++, File systems, Backend development, Cloud storage
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$278k–$390k/yr
About the role: We are seeking a visionary, product leader to own the AI-driven transformation of the platforms powering Rubrik's Go-To-Market (GTM) and Customer Experience (CX) capabilities. This is a hands-on leadershi…
Skills: Product management, AI strategy, Go-to-market strategy, Customer experience, Quote-to-cash
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$161k–$241k/yr
About the team: Rubrik secures and accelerates the world's AI transformation. As AI agents reshape the enterprise, we're again defining what comes next, and Rubrik IT's job is to prove it on Rubrik itself. We're building…
Skills: Product Management, Go-to-market Strategy, AI/ML, Salesforce, CPQ
Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
$171k–$257k/yr
About Us: Rubrik is a leader in cyber security, delivering comprehensive and scalable solutions to protect businesses from today's ever-evolving cyber threats. Our mission is to provide ultimate cyber resilience for our …
Skills: Paid Media Strategy, Lifecycle Marketing, Team Management, Strategic Planning, Performance Metrics
Palo Alto, California, United States · Remote OK
$160k–$267k/yr
About The Team Rubrik is on a mission to secure the world’s data and our Legal Team is committed to supporting this mission, offering critical guidance across many areas of the business. About The Role Our growing AI Leg…
Skills: AI Law, Contract Negotiation, Regulatory Compliance, Intellectual Property, Data Privacy
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The Principal Engineer will lead the technical strategy and execution for indexing and retrieval infrastructure across Core, Ads, and Shopping. This role involves driving modernization initiatives, mentoring senior engineers, and partnering with cross-functional teams to improve system performance and cost efficiency.
Candidates must possess deep expertise in building large-scale indexing, search, or recommendation systems and demonstrate strong technical leadership across multiple organizations. A bachelor's or master's degree in a technical field is required, along with a proven ability to drive complex platform decisions and utilize AI in engineering workflows.
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 the flexibility 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 looking for a Principal Engineer to lead the technical strategy and execution for our Indexing & Retrieval Infrastructure across Core, Ads, and Shopping. This role sits at the center of our delivery infrastructure organization and will shape how fresh, relevant, and cost-efficient candidates are generated for the discovery experiences that power Pinterest at scale.
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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.
Bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Pinterest's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. It's the visual inspiration platform where more than 600 million monthly active users worldwide come to search, save, and shop the best ideas in the world for all of life’s moments.
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