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Sr. Manager, Machine Learning Engineering, Ads Measurement Products
Pinterest INC · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US · Remote
Sponsorship verdict
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 218 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 53 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Pinterest INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles28 certified filings for “Machine Learning Engineer II” (Data Scientists) in CA: $174k–$225k, median $174k. Most were filed at wage level II (54%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 218 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 53 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 . The Measurement Products team helps advertisers understand campaign effectiveness, quantify business impact, and make informed investment decisions. We build a portfolio of first- and third-party measurement solutions spanning incrementally, experimentation, brand outcomes, and other approaches to evaluating advertising performance. We also develop the scalable platforms and capabilities that power these solutions, enabling faster innovation, support for evolving measurement methodologies, and integration with Pinterest’s broader ads, data, and experimentation ecosystems. Our mission is to deliver rigorous, privacy-conscious, and actionable measurement that strengthens advertiser confidence and improves business outcomes. What you’ll do: • Lead and grow a team of experienced ML, backend, and data engineers responsible for building innovative ads measurement products and platforms, including incrementality solutions, measurement diagnostics, anomaly detection, automated insights, and advertiser decision-support tools. • Set the technical vision and multi-year engineering strategy for Measurement Products, translating advertiser needs and measurement methodologies into scalable, reliable, and trustworthy production systems. • Partner closely with Product, Data Science, Ads Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to develop and productionize causal inference, experimentation, and ad-effectiveness solutions without compromising methodological rigor. • Drive the development of scalable ML and data platforms supporting first- and third-party measurement products, including conversion lift, brand lift, budget-split testing, matched-market testing, marketing mix modeling, multi-touch attribution, conversion APIs, and clean-room-based measurement. • Influence the broader Ads Product and Engineering roadmap by identifying high-leverage opportunities to improve the speed, scale, usability, and actionability of Pinterest’s measurement offerings. • Partner with stakeholders across Product Management, Data Science, Sales, and other functions to expand the adoption and business impact of Pinterest’s measurement products. • Hire, mentor, and grow engineering managers, technical leaders, and engineers. Build an inclusive culture of technical excellence, accountability, innovation, and strong cross-functional collaboration. • Champion the effective use of AI-assisted development and LLM-powered tools to accelerate engineering, prototyping, experimentation, and analysis while maintaining rigorous standards for validation, explainability, data protection, and accountability. What we are looking for: • 10+ years of indust