ML Engineer: Real-Time Ads & Monetization

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Short/long-term disability

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 holidays per year

10 paid sick days per year

17 days paid personal time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is expanding its Pangle ad platform in the United States, building scalable systems and ML models for real-time ad delivery and monetization. This role focuses on bidding strategies, CTR/CVR models, and production-grade ML pipelines within a fast-moving, global team.

The team values ownership, strong CS fundamentals, and collaboration as we push the boundaries of mobile monetization and advertising technology.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical disciplines.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience with building and training complex and scalable machine learning systems.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, software design) and problem-solving skills.
• Strong coding skills and a solid understanding of machine learning algorithms, particularly deep learning and ranking models.
• Experience leading or driving machine learning projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize bidding algorithms and strategies across Pangle's ad delivery systems, including targeting, retrieval, ranking, and bidding models, with a focus on improving monetization efficiency and overall ad ROI.
• Improve the performance and efficiency of large-scale, online-learning-based deep models for real-time advertising applications.
• Apply advanced modeling techniques and strategic thinking to enhance attribution accuracy, delivery quality, and long-term ecosystem sustainability. Identify and drive innovative commercialization technologies and product solutions.
• Design, build, and iterate on core ad prediction models such as CTR (Click-Through Rate) and CVR (Conversion Rate) models.

Skills

ML systems

Algorithms

Problem solving

Coding skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is expanding its Pangle ad platform in the United States, building scalable systems and ML models for real-time ad delivery and monetization. This role focuses on bidding strategies, CTR/CVR models, and production-grade ML pipelines within a fast-moving, global team.

The team values ownership, strong CS fundamentals, and collaboration as we push the boundaries of mobile monetization and advertising technology.