Senior Ads ML Engineer – Core & Commerce

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 178,000 - 342,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays & leave

Paid sick days

Paid Personal Time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a data engineering professional to join the Ads team in Seattle. You will build scalable machine learning systems to improve ad ranking quality and optimize advertiser strategies across shop ads.

Collaborate with product managers, designers and engineers to explore next-generation shopping experiences, with a focus on performance, low latency and high throughput in a fast-growing platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical discipline.
• 3+ years in big data processing and storage frameworks.
• Strong CS fundamentals and problem-solving abilities.
• Clear communication and ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable machine learning systems to improve ad ranking quality.
• Explore, develop and experiment with new features for model accuracy.
• Understand ads platform objectives and apply ML to improve relevance and delivery.
• Collaborate with PMs, designers, and engineers on shopping experience innovations.

Skills

Algorithms & data structures

Problem solving

Communication

Ownership

Ads domain

Teamwork

Data intuition

Big data processing

C++

Go

Ad infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Hadoop

Flink

Spark

Kafka

Hive

HBase

Redis

RocksDB

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a data engineering professional to join the Ads team in Seattle. You will build scalable machine learning systems to improve ad ranking quality and optimize advertiser strategies across shop ads.

Collaborate with product managers, designers and engineers to explore next-generation shopping experiences, with a focus on performance, low latency and high throughput in a fast-growing platform.