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Senior Brand Designer roles in the U.S. are accessible to international professionals through the J-1 visa under the Trainee or Specialist program category, depending on your career stage. Securing sponsorship requires a designated sponsor organization to issue your DS-2019, separate from your host employer's hiring decision.
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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 JobsTips for Finding J-1 Visa Sponsorship as a Senior Brand Designer
Align your portfolio with specialty occupation standards
J-1 visa Trainee and Specialist categories require documented field-specific expertise. Organize your portfolio around brand strategy, visual systems, and cross-functional design leadership to demonstrate the depth that distinguishes a senior-level applicant from a generalist.
Verify your program category before applying
If you're within five years of graduation, the Trainee category applies. Beyond that threshold, you qualify as a Specialist. Applying under the wrong category delays your DS-2019 and can result in your host employer withdrawing the offer entirely.
Search Migrate Mate to find J-1-compatible host roles
Not every Senior Brand Designer posting is structured for J-1 participation. Use Migrate Mate to filter roles at employers already familiar with hosting J-1 exchange visitors, which shortens the training plan negotiation and sponsor coordination timeline.
Confirm your host employer will sign the training plan
Your designated sponsor issues the DS-2019, but the host employer must co-sign a detailed training plan outlining learning objectives, supervision structure, and evaluation schedule. Get written confirmation before engaging a sponsor to avoid coordination gaps.
Check whether your home country triggers the two-year rule
Some Senior Brand Designers from countries on the State Department's Exchange Visitor Skills List face a two-year home residency requirement after their J-1 ends. Confirm your country's status early, since this affects your ability to change to H-1B visa or O-1 visa status afterward.
Request prevailing wage data before negotiating your offer
Use the OFLC Wage Search to pull prevailing wage figures for your role and location. Your host employer's offer must meet or exceed these benchmarks for the training plan to be approved by your designated sponsor organization.
Senior Brand Designer J-1 Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Which J-1 program category fits a Senior Brand Designer role?
Most Senior Brand Designer candidates fall under the Trainee or Specialist category. Trainee applies if you completed your design degree within the past five years and have at least one year of relevant experience. Specialist applies if you have substantial post-degree professional experience and recognized expertise in brand design. The designated sponsor determines your category based on documentation you provide.
Who actually sponsors my J-1 visa, my employer or a separate organization?
Your J-1 visa sponsor is a U.S. Department of State-designated organization, such as Cultural Vistas or AIPT, not your hiring employer. The employer acts as your host, providing the role and signing the training plan. The designated sponsor issues your DS-2019, monitors your program compliance, and holds legal responsibility for your exchange visitor status throughout your stay.
How do I find Senior Brand Designer employers that are open to J-1 participants?
Most job postings don't specify J-1 compatibility, which makes direct outreach and targeted research essential. Migrate Mate surfaces Senior Brand Designer roles at U.S. employers already familiar with hosting international exchange visitors, helping you identify opportunities where the host organization is likely to engage cooperatively with a designated sponsor on your training plan.
Does a J-1 Trainee or Specialist placement count as work authorization for future visa purposes?
J-1 status is a nonimmigrant exchange program, not a work visa in the traditional sense. It doesn't generate an employment record with USCIS the same way H-1B status does. If you later pursue H-1B, O-1, or another status, immigration authorities will evaluate your J-1 experience as professional background, but the program itself doesn't accelerate or guarantee future visa eligibility.
Can a two-year home residency requirement block my path to other U.S. visas after a J-1 placement?
Yes, if your home country appears on the State Department's Exchange Visitor Skills List or if your J-1 was funded by a government or international organization, you may be required to return home for two years before changing to H-1B, L-1 visa, or immigrant visa status. A waiver is possible in limited circumstances, but it requires a separate application process and isn't guaranteed for design professionals.