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Machine Learning Engineer, TikTok Brand Ads

San Jose, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Build and optimize the end-to-end advertising ranking funnel (retrieval, coarse-ranking, fine-ranking) and large-scale video content indexing systems for TikTok Brand Ads.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning engineer (advertising ranking & video understanding)

Builds

High-performance ad ranking systems and video content indexing pipelines for brand advertising

Domain

Advertising technology, video content, deep learning, recommendation systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Deep learning, ranking algorithms, video understanding, large-scale system optimization, embedding distillation, hard negative mining, Go, C/C++, Python

Preferred skills

Search/advertising/recommendation systems, NLP, LLMs, auction/bidding/ranking domains, video understanding projects

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