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TikTok · 2 hours ago

General Hire: Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (Data and Eng, USDS) - 2026 Start (MS)

San Jose, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

$119K/yr - $187K/yr

1+ years exp

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking talented individuals to join their applied machine learning team. The role focuses on building large-scale recommendation and search algorithms to enhance user engagement and satisfaction.

Content CreatorsContent DiscoveryMedia and EntertainmentSocial MediaVideo

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Participate in building large-scale (10 million to 100 million) recommendation or Search algorithms and systems

Build long and short term user interest models, analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of various data and design algorithms to explore users' latent interests efficiently

Design, develop, evaluate and iterate on predictive models for candidate generation and ranking(eg. Click Through Rate and Conversion Rate prediction) , including, but not limited to building real-time data pipelines, feature engineering, model optimization and innovation

Design and build supporting/debugging tools as needed

Qualification

Machine LearningDeep LearningProgramming (C++/Python)Recommendation SystemsData MiningNatural Language ProcessingPublicationsProblem Solving

Required

Master's degree or higher in Computer Science or related fields

Strong programming and problem-solving ability

1+ years experience in applied machine learning, familiar with one or more of the algorithms such as Collaborative Filtering, Matrix Factorization, Factorization Machines, Word2vec, Logistic Regression, Gradient Boosting Trees, Deep Neural Networks, Wide and Deep etc

Experience in Deep Learning Tools such as TensorFlow/PyTorch

Experience with at least one programming language like C++/Python or equivalent

Preferred

Experience in recommendation system, online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, large-scale data mining, or related fields

Publications at KDD, NeurlPS, WWW, SIGIR, WSDM, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, RECSYS and related conferences/journals, or experience in data mining/machine learning competitions such as Kaggle/KDD-cup etc

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) savings plan with company match

Paid parental leave

Short-term and long-term disability coverage

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

10 paid sick days per year

17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)

Company

TikTok

Glassdoor3.4

TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.

Founded in 2003

Los Angeles, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.tiktok.com

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