Real‑Time Ad ML Engineer: Bidding & Prediction

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

Parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays and sick days

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is expanding its Pangle team in the U.S. market, building advertising platforms from the ground up to tackle large-scale systems, optimization, and ML challenges. The role focuses on developing bidding strategies and real-time prediction models to maximize monetization and ROI.

Join a fast-moving, global team driving innovation in mobile monetization, with opportunities to lead ML projects and shape the future of 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

CS fundamentals

Programming skills

ML concepts

Problem solving

ML project leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical disciplines

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

OCPC

OCPM

AEO bidding models

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is expanding its Pangle team in the U.S. market, building advertising platforms from the ground up to tackle large-scale systems, optimization, and ML challenges. The role focuses on developing bidding strategies and real-time prediction models to maximize monetization and ROI.

Join a fast-moving, global team driving innovation in mobile monetization, with opportunities to lead ML projects and shape the future of advertising technology.