Sr. Data Scientist, Gen AI Automation

$139,764 - $287,749/yr

AI Automation AI Workflow Design (using GPTs / LLMs) Data Automation Analytics & Reporting Automation System & API Data Integration Salesforce Fivetran Airbyte dbt Supermetrics Snowflake Databricks OpenAI API Claude API

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Role Overview

Join Pinterest's IT Enterprise Systems team as a Senior Data Scientist focused on Generative AI Automation. In this role, you'll build cutting-edge analytics engineering and GenAI capabilities that power Pinterest's go-to-market and corporate operations. You'll create trusted data models and pipelines across core enterprise platforms while developing LLM-enabled workflows with robust evaluation, observability, and guardrails.

This position offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of data science and generative AI, building production-grade solutions that integrate enterprise data sources and establish end-to-end LLM pipelines. You'll lead technical scoping for GenAI use cases, design analytics-ready data models, and define best practices for GenAI in analytics engineering while partnering closely with business stakeholders to turn ambiguous questions into well-scoped technical solutions.

Responsibilities

Build production-grade GenAI-enabled analytics solutions that integrate enterprise data sources (Salesforce, Gong, Oracle, IBM Planning Analytics, and other SaaS platforms)
Establish end-to-end LLM pipelines with evaluation frameworks, observability, and validation guardrails to ensure reliability and safety
Lead technical scoping for GenAI use cases, assessing feasibility, accuracy expectations, risk, and ROI
Design and own analytics-ready data models, including dimensional modeling (star schemas, fact/dimension tables, SCD Type 2)
Develop and maintain robust data pipelines and orchestration using Airflow and/or dbt, including data quality checks and monitoring
Write and optimize complex SQL for transformation and analysis across enterprise datasets
Partner with business stakeholders to turn ambiguous questions into well-scoped requirements and deliverables
Use AI tools to accelerate development responsibly while applying rigorous testing and verification
Define best practices for GenAI in analytics engineering, including prompt patterns and cost/latency optimization

Requirements

8+ years in analytics engineering, data engineering, data science, or related roles
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, or related field
Strong understanding of LLM fundamentals including capabilities, limitations, tokenization, and context windows
Knowledge of RAG vs. fine-tuning vs. prompting/tools for different use cases
Expert SQL skills including complex joins, window functions, CTEs, and query optimization
Hands-on experience with dimensional modeling (star schemas, SCD Type 2)
Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow or dbt
Demonstrated ability to validate AI-assisted output
Strong stakeholder communication skills with ability to explain technical constraints to non-technical partners

Nice to Have

Experience with GenAI coding tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) for accelerated development
Background in cost/latency optimization for LLM applications
Experience with model selection and prompt engineering best practices

Benefits & Perks

Equity eligibility
Flexible working model (PinFlex) with remote work options
In-office collaboration requirement of 1-2 times per quarter

About the Company

Pinterest is a platform where millions of people worldwide find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities, and plan for lasting memories. The company is on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, with AI serving as a powerful partner that augments creativity and amplifies impact.