Machine Learning Engineer Graduate; Commerce Ads BS​/MS

Position: Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (Commerce Ads) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)
Job Summary
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Tik Tok is a leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer Graduate to join their Commerce Ads team in 2026. The role involves building scalable machine learning systems to enhance ad ranking quality and optimize marketing strategies, while collaborating with various teams to explore new shopping experiences on the platform.

Responsibilities
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• 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 Tik Tok.

Qualifications
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Required
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• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant majors, with 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 (Tensor Flow/PyTorch/MXNet), familiar with its architecture and implementation mechanism.

Preferred
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• 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 Tensor Flow).

• Relevant work or research experiences in search and recommendation.

Company
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Tik Tok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of Byte Dance. Founded in 2003, the company is headquartered in Los Angeles, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.