University Recruiting

As a Pintern, you’ll work alongside current Pinployees on impactful and high-exposure projects. Throughout your internship, you’ll join our engineering teams as we maneuver through exponential growth and massive scale while building awesome products and features, creating visually rich experiences, spearheading the discovery problem, and pinpointing tomorrow’s engineering challenges. We offer a 3-6 month summer & fall internships.

Applications will open Fall 2026.

As a Software Engineer at Pinterest, our goal is to challenge you and make sure you’re passionate about what you’re working on and ultimately set you up for success at the start of your career. You’ll help us maneuver through crazy growth and insane scale while building awesome products and features, creating visually rich experiences, spearheading the discovery problem, and PINpointing tomorrow’s engineering challenges.

Applications will open Fall 2026.

As a PhD Machine Learning Intern, you’ll work on tackling new challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. You’ll conduct research that can be applied across Pinterest engineering teams and engage in external collaborations and mentoring, while also performing research in any of the following areas: image recognition, user modeling, recommender systems, natural language processing, and big data analytics. We offer 12-week summer & fall internships.

Applications are now open. 

As a Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest, you’ll work on tackling new challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. We are building the world’s first discovery engine, serving up millions of recommendations to an incredibly loyal user base. At the same time, our teams are building one of the fastest growing online ad platforms, and our success depends on mining rich user interest data that helps us connect users with highly relevant advertisers. In this role, you can join a team in any of the following areas: image recognition, user modeling, recommender systems, natural language processing, and big data analytics. As you kickstart your career at Pinterest, you’ll help us maneuver through crazy growth and insane scale while pinpointing tomorrow’s engineering challenges.

Applications will open Fall 2026. 

As a Machine Learning Intern, you’ll work on tackling new challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Throughout your internship, you’ll join our engineering teams as we maneuver through exponential growth and massive scale while building awesome products and features, creating visually rich experiences, spearheading the discovery problem, and pinpointing tomorrow’s engineering challenges. We offer 12-week summer & fall internships.

Applications are now open. 

As a Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll work on tackling new challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. You’ll join our engineering teams as we maneuver through exponential growth and massive scale while building awesome products and features, creating visually rich experiences, spearheading the discovery problem, and pinpointing tomorrow’s engineering challenges.

Applications will open Fall 2026.

As a Data Science Intern, you’ll help strengthen and scale Pinterest’s experimentation capabilities to drive faster product innovation. Throughout your internship, you’ll join data scientists as we use quantitative analysis, statistical methods, and data mining techniques to evaluate the challenges of running hundreds of concurrent experiments, and help develop approaches that generate reliable insights with less data. Your work will support clearer experiment interpretation and enable Pinterest to scale experimentation more effectively across the platform. This is a 12-week summer internship.

Applications will open Fall 2026.

As a Data Science University Grad, you’ll help us build and scale Pinterest’s approach to experimentation so we can accelerate innovation on our product. You’ll apply quantitative analysis, statistical techniques and data mining skills to understand the limitations of running hundreds of simultaneous experiments to help us draw reliable insights with a fraction of the data. Your impact and work will enable us to simplify the interpretation of experiments and scale the number of experiments we run at Pinterest.

Applications will open Fall 2026.

Our summer internship program is 12 weeks and has two cohorts – one in May for semester system students and one in June for quarter system students. Based on your start date, you can plan on being a Pintern through August or September.

For more information about the interview process for new grads and interns by team, please visit the following Life at Pinterest blogs. 

• General Software Engineering Interns and New Grads including Mobile and Security positions 
• Machine Learning and Data Science Interns and New Grads

As we receive a high volume of applicants each year, our recruiters do their best to review applications and respond to candidates in a timely manner. Timing may vary, especially in peak season (August - April). Rest assured, by the end of the season, all applicants will be notified if we’ve decided to proceed with their candidacy. The best way to have a recruiter consider your qualifications is to apply directly through our careers page.

We typically open roles in August or September.

Our university roles, including new grad and intern positions, do require that you be currently enrolled in an accredited program and seeking a Bachelors - PhD in your given field. If you’ve already completed your program and are interested in Pinterest, we encourage you to find an open role on our site that inspires you and apply.