Tech Lead Machine Learning Engineer - Applied AIGC, TikTok Monetization GenAI

Tech Lead Machine Learning Engineer - Applied AIGC, Tik Tok Monetization GenAI

Location:

San Jose

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code: A220606

• Develop automated creative generation across various modalities for advertising, including text, image, video, and explore and apply LLM/SD models for high‑quality content creation.
• Develop next‑generation conversational assistant on top of LLMs to enhance user intention and context understanding and complex task completion capabilities.
• Be self‑motivated to come up with new solutions that improve chat experience, model outputs, and explore new products with generative AI at its core.

• Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in Computer Science or related fields.
• 5+ years of relevant development experience and demonstrated knowledge of machine learning technology (Rec Sys/NLP/CV).
• Experience in utilizing generative AI technology in marketing texts, images and videos, and familiarity with LLMs and model fine‑tuning (instruct tuning, SFT, RLHF, etc.).
• Passion for new technologies and proven capability in analysis and problem‑solving.
• Good team player, with communication skills and preferred project management experience.
• Strong perseverance and courage to help the business reach a higher level.

Base salary range: $244,800 - $450,000 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work. This role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and country of work location. Employees have day‑one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) savings plan with company match; paid parental leave; short‑term and long‑term disability coverage; life insurance; well‑being benefits; and more. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year, and 17 days of paid personal time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

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. 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:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.