ML Infra Engineer Graduate (Ads Infra) - 2027 Start

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@2026 Tik Tok

Technology

San Jose

Regular

A258689B

The ads system at Tik Tok operates on a massive scale and serves millions of advertisers, clients and influencers across the world. The quality of the ads system highly depends on the ability to handle massive data, and machine learning is widely used to improve the quality of our ads. The Ads Infra team is responsible for building highly efficient and stable infrastructure to collect and process data for the usage of machine learning training, serving, and privacy enforcement, including feature engineering, feature store, training data generation, etc.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to our Company and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

• Develop and optimize advertising recommendation models, covering training, evaluation, inference and user behavior sequence modeling.
• Build large-scale data pipelines for sample generation and joining, feature processing, storage and data quality assurance.
• Develop ML platforms for distributed training, model distribution, online serving and lifecycle management.
• Explore MLLM applications in advertising, including data production, model training, fine-tuning and inference optimization.
• Apply AI agents to workflow orchestration, resource scheduling, failure diagnosis and automated operations.
• Build machine learning platforms for GPU allocation, scheduling, usage metering, cost accounting and utilization optimization.

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's/ Master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as C++, Python, Go or Java.
• Solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, machine learning and computer systems.
• Familiarity with recommendation systems, MLLMs, distributed systems, ML platforms or large-scale data processing.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks, distributed training, GPU scheduling, AI agents or cloud-native technologies is a plus.

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The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $128000 - $256000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including 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, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

• 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, wellbeing benefits, among others.
• 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.