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Senior Machine Learning Engineer - TikTok Short Video Content Understanding/Multimodal Recommendation

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

Core

Lead multimodal algorithm development and cutting-edge research for TikTok's short-video business, focusing on LLM/MLLM applications like generative recommendation and video tagging.

Role type

Senior IC machine-learning engineer (multimodal recommendation)

Builds

Production multimodal models and recommendation systems for TikTok short videos

Domain

Social media, video content, large language models (LLMs), multimodal learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

multimodal content understanding, large language models (LLMs), deep learning frameworks (PyTorch/TensorFlow), generative recommendation, weakly-supervised learning, few-shot classification, video tagging, multi-task learning, multilingual learning, multimodal pretraining

Preferred skills

deploying content understanding solutions in search, advertising, or recommendation domains

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow

Responsibilities

Lead multimodal algorithm development for short-video business; Conduct cutting-edge research in multimodal and MLLM technologies; Drive engineering deployment ensuring model stability and scalability; Design general AI platform features like few-shot/zero-shot learning and active learning; Integrate content understanding with recommendation systems.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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