TikTok · 1 day ago
Machine Learning Engineer, Multimodal - Intelligent Integrity
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Entry Level
$137K/yr - $259K/yr
1+ years expTikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to join their Business Integrity team. The role focuses on developing scalable machine learning models for content understanding and enhancing ad ecosystem security through innovative algorithm research and implementation.
Content CreatorsContent DiscoveryMedia and EntertainmentSocial MediaVideo
Responsibilities
Focus on ad content understanding and security, conduct algorithm R&D for large model implementation, and apply LLM/MLLM and other AIGC technologies to e-commerce and short-video ad content understanding to build a next-gen large model-based commercial intelligence review system
Deepen multimodal understanding tech for text, audio, video, live streaming, etc., optimize model decision-making for high-accuracy autonomous risk judgment, and implement interpretable CoT generation for traceable model decisions
Explore RL/Agent applications in multimodal review scenarios, track AIGC cutting-edge trends, and deliver algorithm innovation and engineering implementation tailored to commercial business needs
Develop dedicated multimodal content understanding models to empower ad intent recognition, intelligent rule retrieval and accurate risk judgment, enhance advertisers' creation experience, reduce non-compliant content non-detection risks, and protect ad ecosystem security
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or above in CS, AI, Mathematics, Statistics or related majors, with 1+ year of algorithm R&D/project implementation experience in content understanding or AIGC
Solid ML/DL theoretical foundation, in-depth understanding of MLLM/LLM, CV, NLP, multimodal fusion and Agent technologies; strong mathematical skills, excellent self-learning and problem-solving abilities; project implementation experience preferred
Proficient in PyTorch/TensorFlow, with hands-on experience in large model training, fine-tuning and inference deployment; excellent engineering capabilities, master Python/C++
Familiar with technical principles and applications of multimodal large models; experience in content understanding, ad analysis, multimodal representation learning or intelligent review preferred
Accredited publications at CS/ML conferences
Benefits
Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance
A 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
TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.
10001+ employees
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CEO
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