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# Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (Lead Ads) - 2027 Start

- **Company:** Tiktok Inc.
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** $128,000.0 - $256,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Mxnet, Data Analysis, C++ (Programming Language), Computer Engineering, Graph Database, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Named Entity Recognition, Tensorflow, Feature Engineering, Pytorch, Deep Learning, Linux Development, Information Technology, Recurrent Neural Networks, Golang
- **Published:** August 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=badea82129409294

## About the Role

* Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's or above degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
 * 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 (TensorFlow/PyTorch/MXNet), familiar with its architecture and implementation mechanism.

Preferred Qualifications:

 * Ads system, recommendation, searching, ranking, etc., Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment

## Description

The Lead Ads team empowers TikTok's global monetization (billion-dollar business) via efficiently delivering lead ads on TikTok. Our mission is to push the boundaries of large-scale ads delivery systems and lead the innovations of TikTok's personalized online advertising., * Participate in the development of a large-scale Ads system

 * Responsible for relevance model and strategy optimization, such as semantic matching models, active learning, text/photo/video multi-model, ranking strategy, etc
 * Participate in the development and iteration of Ads algorithms by using Machine Learning.
 * Work on NLP (Natural Language Processing) capability improvement and query understanding, such as query classification, seq2seq, NER (Named Entity Recognition), knowledge graph, bidword optimization, etc
 * Work on CTR/CVR model estimation accuracy, data analysis, modeling, feature engineering
 * Research and develop Ads pacing algorithms, ads traffic control, etc
 * Partner with product managers and product strategy & operation team to define product strategy and features


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