Multimodal ML Engineer for Ads Content Understanding

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 388,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 holidays per year

10 paid sick days per year

17 days Paid Personal Time

Job summary

TikTok is hiring for a seasoned ML engineer to advance large-scale advertising systems and multimodal content understanding. You will own critical targeting components within the ads monetization pipeline and work closely with product and business teams to align on vision and strategy.

You will apply deep learning techniques using PyTorch or TensorFlow, and collaborate with global teams to drive high-performance, scalable solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in and strong grounding in machine learning concepts and techniques.
• Proven experience in multimodal content understanding, with expertise in large language models (LLMs).
• Strong foundation in at least one major deep learning framework (PyTorch or TensorFlow).
• Proactive mindset, ownership, excellent communication, and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Participate in development of a large-scale Ads system.
• Develop state-of-the-art applied machine learning projects.
• Own key targeting components in TikTok ads monetization ecosystem.
• Collaborate with product and business teams on product vision.

Skills

ML concepts

Multimodal understanding

LLMs familiarity

Ownership & collaboration

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

TikTok is hiring for a seasoned ML engineer to advance large-scale advertising systems and multimodal content understanding. You will own critical targeting components within the ads monetization pipeline and work closely with product and business teams to align on vision and strategy.

You will apply deep learning techniques using PyTorch or TensorFlow, and collaborate with global teams to drive high-performance, scalable solutions in a fast-paced environment.