Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (Commerce Ads) - 2025 Start (BS/MS)

$113,500 - $250,000/Yr

Tiktok - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Entry Level

San Jose, CA

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About the position

The TikTok Commerce Ads team is focused on enhancing commerce ads to establish TikTok as a vital growth engine for businesses and a top destination for consumers. The role involves building scalable machine learning systems to improve ad ranking quality and optimize marketing strategies, while collaborating with various teams to innovate shopping experiences on the platform.

Responsibilities

• Build highly scalable machine learning systems and state-of-the-art machine learning models to improve ads ranking quality and optimize advertisers' marketing strategies.
• Explore, develop and experiment with new features to improve model accuracy.
• Understand ads platform objectives and leverage modern machine learning to enhance ads relevance, quality, and quantity delivered to end-users.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and other disciplines to explore the next generation of shopping experiences on TikTok.

Requirements

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors, with related work experience.
• Solid programming skills in Go, C/C++, Python, and familiarity with basic data structures and algorithms.
• Good analytical thinking capability and essential knowledge in statistics.
• Good theoretical grounding in machine and deep learning concepts and techniques (CNN/RNN/LSTM, etc.).
• Familiarity with the architecture and implementation of at least one mainstream machine learning programming framework (TensorFlow/PyTorch/MXNet).

Nice-to-haves

• Good understanding in ads bidding & auction, ads quality control, and online advertising systems.
• Experience in resource management and task scheduling with large-scale distributed software (such as Spark and TensorFlow).
• Relevant work or research experiences in search and recommendation.

Benefits

• 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% for dependents, and a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company match.
• Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans.
• 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.
• 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.