Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Shop Ads

$187,040 - $280,000/Yr

Tiktok - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Jose, CA

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About the position

The Machine Learning Engineer position at TikTok focuses on applying advanced machine learning techniques to enhance advertisers' marketing strategies. The role involves collaborating with various teams to develop innovative shopping experiences on the platform, ensuring high performance and reliability in services. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background and a passion for understanding business needs to drive impactful solutions.

Responsibilities

• Apply state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to optimize advertisers' marketing strategies.
• Connect with businesses directly to understand and develop solutions for their jobs-to-be-done.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and other disciplines to explore the next generation of shopping experiences on TikTok.
• Capitalize on the organic shopping behaviors on TikTok today and facilitate retentive behaviors to provide more people value and business value.

Requirements

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or similar fields, with 5+ years of related industry experience.
• Solid programming skills, proficient in Python/Golang/Java/C/C++.
• Familiarity with at least one mainstream deep learning programming framework (TensorFlow/Caffe/MXNet) and its architecture and implementation mechanism.
• Familiarity with deep learning algorithms (CNN/RNN/LSTM, etc.).
• Team-player with strong communication skills who can also work independently.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with main components for ads systems, including bidding, ranking, and auction.
• Experience in resource management and task scheduling with large-scale distributed software (such as Spark and TensorFlow).

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one.
• 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).