Staff Data Scientist, Trust and Safety
Staff data scientist on Pinterest's Trust & Safety and Content Quality team, using quantitative modeling, ML frameworks, forecasting, and experimentation to move moderation from reactive harm reporting to proactive, metrics-driven risk management at web scale. Core tools: SQL, Python/R, machine learning, statistics.
- Compensation
- $164.7K–$339.1K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Data science
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Minimum 10 years of experience analyzing data in a fast-paced, data-driven environment with scientific methods on web-scale data
- Extensive experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches (Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, Forecasting, Econometrics or related fields)
- Scientifically rigorous approach to analysis with skepticism, attention to detail and high-quality output
- Ability to manipulate large, high-dimensionality data sets; fluency in SQL and a scripting language (Python or R)
- Excellent communication skills; ability to explain learnings to technical and non-technical partners
- Team player able to partner with cross-functional leadership to turn insights into actions
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience
Full description
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 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.
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.
As a Data Scientist in our Core organization - Trust and Safety + Content Quality, you will shape the future of people-facing and business-facing products we build at Pinterest. Your expertise in quantitative modeling, experimentation and algorithms will be utilized to solve some of the most complex engineering challenges at the company. You will collaborate on a wide array of product and business problems with a diverse set of cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, Design, Research, Product Analytics, Data Engineering and others. The results of your work will influence and uplevel our product development teams while introducing greater scientific rigor into the real world products serving hundreds of millions of pinners, creators, advertisers and merchants around the world. The core mandate is to evolve the organization from reactive moderation and lagging harm reporting into a proactive, metrics-driven operating system—where we manage leading indicators that predict risk, improve understanding quality, and keep Pinterest safe, inspiring, and useful.