Senior Data Scientist, Trust & Safety and Content Quality

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 . Pinterest is the world's leading visual search and discovery platform, serving over 500 million monthly active users globally on their journey from inspiration to action. As we scale experiences in a complicated ecosystem, ensuring they are safe, fair, and trustworthy is paramount. We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to help lead Pinterest's Trust and Safety mandate by designing the foundations for measuring the prevalence of unsafe content across the platform. In this role, you will design and build sampling frameworks, complex data aggregations, and measurement methodologies to track Trust & Safety policy violations across complex, multi-component user interactions. You will work in a highly collaborative and cross-functional environment, partnering with ML Engineers, Trust & Safety Ops, subject matter expert teams, and Product Managers. The results of your work will directly influence platform safety metrics, policy compliance, and executive-level visibility into platform health.What you'll do What you'll do: Design and develop ML-assisted sampling techniques, applying expertise in statistical methods to accurately measure the prevalence of unsafe content, treating complex multi-component interactions as distinct measurement units. Apply rigorous statistical methods, drawing on knowledge of all kinds of sampling methods and their proper statistical application for complicated use cases, to calculate prevalence rates for specific Trust & Safety policy violations (e.g., Adult content, Self-harm, Harassment, Misinformation) and to further expand and improve prevalence measurement. Build large-scale data pipelines to aggregate Pinner-generated queries, system responses, and recommended Pin images into a unified format for human and ML-based safety labeling. Partner cross-functionally to orchestrate “Offline” dashboards and robust “Online” production workflows for continuous safety monitoring. Collaborate closely with Trust & Safety teams to translate written safety policies into unified LLM prompts, coordinate BPO labeling queues, and calibrate labeler decision quality. Define and evangelize what constitutes high-quality content across Pinterest's surfaces, building rigorous, scalable statistical frameworks to measure and continuously monitor content quality at a platform level. Analyze and model the end-to-end content distribution funnel to inform how high-quality content is selected, ranked, and surfaced to hundreds of millions of Pinners, creators, advertisers, and merchants. Lead the development of improved methodologies for evaluating the quality of links to external websites surfaced on Pinterest, partnering with Engineering and Policy teams to operationalize findings. Develop best practices for instrumentation and experimentation, and instrument methodology to improve the sensitivity of existing metrics, across both the Trust & Safety and Content Quality domains. Design reusable tooling and workflows for ongoing metrics monitoring and reporting across both mandates. Leverage AI to seek faster execution (i.e. draft, prototype, outline) and explore alternative options (i.e. iterate, compare approaches) Leverage AI to synthesize information (summarize, distill themes) and automate repeatable tasks (documentation, reporting, QA checks) What we're looking for: 5+ years of experience analyzing data in a fast-paced, data-driven environment with proven ability to apply scientific methods to solve real-world problems on web-scale data. Extensive experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches in Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, Forecasting, Econometrics, or related fields, with a proven record of researching and implementing advanced methods on real-world measurement problems. Strong interest and hands-on experi