TikTok
Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Creative
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or another relevant major.
About the job
Develop large-scale advertising systems and applied machine-learning solutions, including targeting components and strategies for TikTok’s ads monetization ecosystem.
What you'll do
- Develop large-scale ads systems and state-of-the-art applied machine-learning projects.
- Own key targeting components or strategies in the ads monetization ecosystem.
- Work with product and business teams on product vision.
What they ask for
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or another relevant major.
- Experience and a strong theoretical grounding in machine-learning concepts and techniques.
- Excellent programming, debugging, and optimization skills in one or more general-purpose programming languages, including Go, C/C++, or Python.
- Experience with one or more frameworks such as Tensorflow, PyTorch, or MXNet.
Nice to have
- Experience in ads systems, recommendation, search, or ranking.
Tools
Go, C/C++, Python, Tensorflow, PyTorch, MXNet
AI focus
Applied machine learning for ads targeting and monetization; the team also works on AI-powered smart video generation and is exploring AIGC.
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