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Executive Search roles give F-1 students hands-on experience in talent acquisition, candidate assessment, and client relationship management, all directly tied to business, HR, or organizational psychology curricula. CPT authorization must come from your DSO before you start, and your offer letter should specify the role, employer, and dates.
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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.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
As a machine learning intern in our Advance Technology Group at Pinterest, you will be exposed to a full spectrum of ML product development. The team focuses on developing cutting-edge technologies for Pinterest’s visual understanding modules and recommender systems. You'll conduct research that can be applied across Pinterest engineering teams and engage in external collaborations and mentoring, while also having opportunities to deploy features to hundreds of millions of users or conduct research applicable for paper submissions. We offer a 12-week fall internship program remotely or in our San Francisco, Palo Alto, Seattle, or New York offices.
Note to applicants:
By applying to this role, you will be considered for multiple intern roles open across our various ML teams. Please only apply once within the USA or Canada as multiple applications may delay our recruitment process.
Internships are 12 weeks paid from September 21 - December 11, 2026. Depending on the team, our fall internships will be located either remote or hybrid in San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York or Seattle offices.
What you’ll do:
- Develop and launch new user features using unique internal datasets and ML techniques, especially in computer vision, generative AI, and responsible AI.
- Gain hands-on experience with production ML systems, including algorithmic research, infrastructure, data engineering, training, inference, and product, to deliver innovative solutions. You will be exposed to full-stack production ML systems.
- Leverage frontier AI tools and agents to accelerate engineering implementation, including prototyping and experimentation work.
- Validate AI-generated outputs through testing, code review, and critical thinking, ensuring solutions are accurate, maintainable, secure, and aligned with team standards.
- Use AI to better understand unfamiliar code, investigate bugs, and summarize technical context or documentation.
- Contribute in cutting-edge research in machine learning and artificial intelligence that can be applied to Pinterest problems.
- Write clean, efficient, and sustainable code.
- Take proactive ownership over the completion and quality of your tasks and project with minimal guidance from your mentor, manager, and peers.
What we’re looking for:
- This role will be on our Visual Search team. We are looking for candidates with experience in Computer Vision, Visual Search, User Understanding, Generative AI, and LLMs.
- Ability to legally work full time (40 hours/week) from September-December 2026.
- Working towards a Master's degree in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences or related field.
- Mastery of at least one systems language (Java, C++, Python) and one ML framework (Tensorflow, Pytorch, MLFlow).
- Proficiency with AI-native engineering, including the design of agent-friendly codebases.
- High degree of autonomy in learning new agent-first development tools.
- Strong critical thinking when working with AI-generated suggestions, with a clear approach to validating correctness, performance, security, and maintainability.
- Comfort iterating on prompts, refining workflows, and adapting AI-assisted approaches based on the problem, context, and constraints.
- Experience in research and in solving analytical problems.
- Strong communicator and team player. Being able to find solutions for open-ended problems.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Publications in machine learning, AI, data science, data analytics, statistics, or related technical fields.
- Strong passion for research and for answering hard questions with research.
- Passion for applied ML and the Pinterest product.
Why Intern at Pinterest?
- Meaningful Work: Contribute to projects that impact millions of users worldwide.
- Mentorship: Learn from and be guided by experienced engineers and researchers in the field.
- Growth and Development: Participate in professional development workshops and networking events to build your skills and connections.
In-Office Requirement Statement:
- We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we’re not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
- This role may require you to be located near an office for in-person collaboration, and therefore may need to be located a commutable distance from one of our Pinterest offices.
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. 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.
US based applicants only
The salary for this position is $11,000 monthly.
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Our Commitment to Inclusion:
Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.
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.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
As a machine learning intern in our Advance Technology Group at Pinterest, you will be exposed to a full spectrum of ML product development. The team focuses on developing cutting-edge technologies for Pinterest’s visual understanding modules and recommender systems. You'll conduct research that can be applied across Pinterest engineering teams and engage in external collaborations and mentoring, while also having opportunities to deploy features to hundreds of millions of users or conduct research applicable for paper submissions. We offer a 12-week fall internship program remotely or in our San Francisco, Palo Alto, Seattle, or New York offices.
Note to applicants:
By applying to this role, you will be considered for multiple intern roles open across our various ML teams. Please only apply once within the USA or Canada as multiple applications may delay our recruitment process.
Internships are 12 weeks paid from September 21 - December 11, 2026. Depending on the team, our fall internships will be located either remote or hybrid in San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York or Seattle offices.
What you’ll do:
- Develop and launch new user features using unique internal datasets and ML techniques, especially in computer vision, generative AI, and responsible AI.
- Gain hands-on experience with production ML systems, including algorithmic research, infrastructure, data engineering, training, inference, and product, to deliver innovative solutions. You will be exposed to full-stack production ML systems.
- Leverage frontier AI tools and agents to accelerate engineering implementation, including prototyping and experimentation work.
- Validate AI-generated outputs through testing, code review, and critical thinking, ensuring solutions are accurate, maintainable, secure, and aligned with team standards.
- Use AI to better understand unfamiliar code, investigate bugs, and summarize technical context or documentation.
- Contribute in cutting-edge research in machine learning and artificial intelligence that can be applied to Pinterest problems.
- Write clean, efficient, and sustainable code.
- Take proactive ownership over the completion and quality of your tasks and project with minimal guidance from your mentor, manager, and peers.
What we’re looking for:
- This role will be on our Visual Search team. We are looking for candidates with experience in Computer Vision, Visual Search, User Understanding, Generative AI, and LLMs.
- Ability to legally work full time (40 hours/week) from September-December 2026.
- Working towards a Master's degree in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences or related field.
- Mastery of at least one systems language (Java, C++, Python) and one ML framework (Tensorflow, Pytorch, MLFlow).
- Proficiency with AI-native engineering, including the design of agent-friendly codebases.
- High degree of autonomy in learning new agent-first development tools.
- Strong critical thinking when working with AI-generated suggestions, with a clear approach to validating correctness, performance, security, and maintainability.
- Comfort iterating on prompts, refining workflows, and adapting AI-assisted approaches based on the problem, context, and constraints.
- Experience in research and in solving analytical problems.
- Strong communicator and team player. Being able to find solutions for open-ended problems.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Publications in machine learning, AI, data science, data analytics, statistics, or related technical fields.
- Strong passion for research and for answering hard questions with research.
- Passion for applied ML and the Pinterest product.
Why Intern at Pinterest?
- Meaningful Work: Contribute to projects that impact millions of users worldwide.
- Mentorship: Learn from and be guided by experienced engineers and researchers in the field.
- Growth and Development: Participate in professional development workshops and networking events to build your skills and connections.
In-Office Requirement Statement:
- We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we’re not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
- This role may require you to be located near an office for in-person collaboration, and therefore may need to be located a commutable distance from one of our Pinterest offices.
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. 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.
US based applicants only
The salary for this position is $11,000 monthly.
LI-HYBRID
LI-EB1
Our Commitment to Inclusion:
Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.
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Get Access To All JobsExecutive Search CPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Does executive search work qualify as CPT for F-1 students?
Yes, if the role is directly tied to your field of study and your school approves it. Executive search work, candidate research, competency mapping, client needs analysis, typically aligns with business administration, HR management, and organizational behavior programs. Your DSO makes the final determination based on how your job duties connect to your enrolled coursework.
Can I work at an executive search firm part-time on CPT while still in classes?
Yes. CPT can be part-time (fewer than 20 hours per week) while you're enrolled, which fits well with executive search research roles that often accommodate flexible hours. Part-time CPT doesn't count against your 12-month full-time CPT limit, so it won't affect your OPT eligibility later.
How do I find executive search employers who are familiar with CPT authorization?
Browse Migrate Mate for executive search and talent acquisition roles posted by employers with F-1 hiring experience. Many boutique search firms are accustomed to CPT students in research analyst roles but don't advertise it broadly. Searching by employer authorization history rather than job title alone gives you a more accurate picture of where you're likely to get an offer.
What happens if my CPT end date doesn't cover the full internship period?
You must stop working on the date your CPT authorization expires, even if the employer wants you to continue. Return to your DSO before the end date to request an extension, your school needs updated employer documentation and confirmation the work remains curriculum-integral. Working even one day past the authorization window violates your F-1 status.
Will doing full-time CPT at an executive search firm affect my OPT eligibility?
It can. Twelve months or more of full-time CPT makes you ineligible for OPT entirely. If you're planning to use OPT for post-graduation employment, track your cumulative full-time CPT hours carefully. Part-time CPT at an executive search firm throughout the academic year is a common way to gain experience without consuming OPT eligibility.