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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Web Ads and Open-loop E-Commerce

Tik Tok
Seattle, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/1/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/25/2025

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.

TikTok Web Ads and Open-loop E-commerce team holds a strong advertiser focus and a dedication to technical excellence. We work with advertisers from all verticals, such as E-commerce, Retail, Travel etc, to make TikTok an irreplaceable growth channel for businesses of all sizes and a favourite destination for consumers to discover and purchase products, content, and services. We are on the critical path to delivering TikTok's Ads revenue and working on building the next-generation web ads solution for TikTok.

We are seeking Machine Learning Engineers who can help us to improve our existing delivery system that optimizes for advertisers' true business objectives, i.e. desired user value and effectiveness of ROI. You will have a chance to work with a fully globalized team made up of great engineering talents in different countries, and work closely with cross-functional teams to build proper and relevant connections between users, advertisers, and TikTok.

What You'll Do :

  • Build highly scalable machine learning systems and state-of-the-art machine learning models to improve ads ranking quality and optimize advertisers' marketing strategies. Examples include but are not limited to click through rate prediction, conversion rate prediction, intelligent format selection and user journey optimization.
  • Explore, develop and experiment with new features to improve model accuracy.
  • Understand ads platform objectives and take full advantage of modern machine learning to improve 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.

Qualifications

  • BS / MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors, with 5 years of related work experience.
  • Solid programming skills, including but not limited to : Go, C / C , Python. Familiar with basic data structure and algorithms. Familiar with Linux development environment.
  • Good analytical thinking capability. Have essential knowledge and skills in statistics.
  • Good theoretical grounding in the machine and deep learning concepts and techniques (CNN / RNN / LSTM, etc.).
  • Familiar with the architecture and implementation of at least one mainstream machine learning programming framework (TensorFlow / PyTorch / MXNet), familiar with its architecture and implementation mechanism.
  • Good understanding in one of the following domains : ads bidding & auction, ads quality control, and online advertising systems (familiar with one or more of these terms : CPC / CPM, CTR / CVR, Ranking / Targeting, Conversion / Budget, Campaign / Creative, Demand / Inventory, DSP / RTB).
  • 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.
  • TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

    TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or an accommodation, please reach out to us at will.wong@tiktok.com.

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