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(General Hire) Senior Machine Learning Engineer, TikTok Recommendation

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

Core

Develop and own full-stack machine learning systems and pipelines to improve user experience and grow the platform content ecosystem.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning engineer (recommendation systems)

Builds

Production recommendation systems and ML infrastructure

Domain

Social media / Recommendation algorithms

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

C/C++, Python, data structures and algorithms, deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), large-scale system design, applied machine learning, recommendation system architecture

Preferred skills

market-facing ML product experience, US market growth strategy

Responsibilities

Design product strategies to grow the platform in the US market, build ML systems to address critical product challenges, lead development and improvement of full-stack ML systems

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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