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Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (Ads Targeting)- 2027 Start

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

Core

Building automatic delivery products and world-leading ranking models for TikTok's global advertising business to improve returns for users and customers.

Role type

Graduate Machine Learning Engineer (Ads Targeting)

Builds

Automatic delivery products, ranking models, and the ads delivery stack (retrieval, prediction, bidding, delivery strategies)

Domain

Advertising technology, machine learning, large-scale data systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, ML/DL/LLM fundamentals, SQL, Pandas, feature engineering, sequential behavior modeling, multi-objective optimization

Preferred skills

C++/Go, PyTorch/TensorFlow, Spark/Flink/Hive, vector search (ANN), causal/experimentation, production inference

Responsibilities

Develop user modeling, lookalike modeling, and auto-targeting algorithms; support offline training and evaluation pipelines; assist with online A/B testing and KPI tracking; collaborate on productionizing models in the ads delivery stack

Seniority

Graduate (entry-level)

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