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Lead Machine Learning Engineer

TikTok

$212,202 - $416,100
Sep 11, 2025
Bellevue, WA, USA
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TikTok is looking to build industry-leading systems, improve user experience, content ecosystem, and platform security by developing new machine learning solutions and optimizing existing ML infrastructure.

Requirements

  • Coding using Python or C++;
  • Optimizing, training, and deploying machine learning and deep learning models using PyTorch or TensorFlow;
  • Developing code and identifying issues in a Linux environment;
  • Developing and deploying large-scale machine learning systems;
  • Utilizing Big data framework Spark, Hadoop, or Flink.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the building of industry-leading systems, and improve user experience, content ecosystem and platform security.
  • Build machine learning (ML) models and implement ML-based strategies to improve system infrastructure.
  • Lead and conduct code reviews to ensure delivery of end-to-end machine learning solutions.
  • Own the full stack machine learning system and optimize algorithms and infrastructure to improve recommendation performance.
  • Build new pipelines for ML model training or iteration.
  • Partner with cross functional teams to design product strategies and features and build solutions to support platform’s growth.

Other

  • Must have a PhD degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Machine Learning, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related field, and 1 year of related work experience; or a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Machine Learning, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related field and 4 years of related work experience.
  • International travel required up to 5%.
  • Full time, 40 hours/week
  • Location: Bellevue, WA
  • We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company.