Associate Machine Learning Engineer

TikTok USDS Joint Venture

San Jose, CA0–2 yrs53m agovia LinkedIn

About the Team

We are a group of applied machine learning engineers and data scientists focused on general feed and E-commerce recommendations. We develop innovative algorithms and techniques to improve user engagement and satisfaction, translating creative ideas into business-impacting solutions. We are interested in applying large-scale machine learning to solve real-world problems.

What You Will Do

  • Participate in designing, building, and maintaining robust MLOps pipelines (CI/CD for ML) for hyper-scale (10M–100M+ users) recommendation models, ensuring reliable continuous training, automated evaluation, and seamless deployment.
  • Architect high-throughput real-time streaming data pipelines and feature stores (offline & online feature synchronization) to support dynamic user interest modeling (short-term & long-term signals).
  • Optimize candidate generation and ranking predictive models (CTR, CVR) for production serving.
  • Work on inference acceleration, model quantization, parallel computation, and latency reduction using C++/CUDA/TensorRT or similar frameworks.
  • Build automated monitoring, debugging, and visualization tools for tracking feature drift, model performance degradation, data leakage, and GPU/CPU cluster utilization.
  • Partner with algorithm researchers and platform teams to streamline the lifecycle of large-scale deep learning models from experimental prototype to zero-downtime production deployment.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related fields.
  • Strong programming and problem-solving ability.
  • Basic understanding of MLOps principles, including data preprocessing, containerization (Docker), model tracking/versioning, or workflow orchestration.
  • Driven to solve complex real-world distributed systems and machine learning operational challenges.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in recommendation systems, online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, large-scale data mining, or related fields.

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