(General Hire) Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (TikTok Recommendation) - 2025 Start (MS)

$119,000 - $168,150/Yr

Tiktok - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Entry Level

Seattle, WA

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About the position

The Machine Learning Engineer Graduate position at TikTok focuses on developing and optimizing recommendation systems to enhance user experience and platform growth. This role is designed for recent graduates who will work within a collaborative team of machine learning researchers and engineers, contributing to critical product decisions and innovations in recommendation algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Build industry-leading recommendation system, improving user experience, content ecosystem and platform security.
• Deliver end-to-end machine learning solution to address critical product challenges.
• Own the full stack machine learning system and optimize algorithms and infrastructure to improve recommendation performance.
• Work with cross functional teams to design product strategies and build solutions to grow TikTok in important markets.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree or above in the field of computer science or a related technical discipline.
• Proficient coding skills and strong algorithm & data structure using C++/Python or other programming language.
• Experienced in Machine Learning, familiar with at least one DeepLearning framework, e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow.
• Experienced in one or more of the following areas: NLP, CV, Recommender System, and Machine Learning.
• Effective communication and teamwork skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Authors of published papers in top academia conferences is an advantage.
• Winners of algorithm and machine learning competitions such as ACM and Kaggle is an advantage.

Benefits

• 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company match.
• Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.
• 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) and 10 paid sick days per year.
• 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.
• Mental and emotional health benefits through EAP and Lyra.
• 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.