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Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (Short Video Content Understanding/Multimodal Recommendation) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

TikTok San Jose, CA

San Jose, CA

2mo ago Closed

$123k - $256k/yr Full time Computer Vision Deep Learning Graduate

This position is no longer accepting applications (closed Jun 22, 2026).

Job Description

A graduate level machine learning engineer role with a 2026 start date in San Jose, CA, focused on multimodal content understanding and short-video recommendation.

Responsibilities

Lead multimodal algorithm development for TikTok’s short-video business, exploring applications of multimodal technologies in recommendations and related scenarios to improve key business metrics.
Conduct cutting-edge research in multimodal and MLLM technologies, designing robust algorithms to meet business needs while pursuing technical breakthroughs.
Drive engineering deployment and implementation, ensuring model stability, scalability, and efficiency across production environments and data pipelines.
Focus on key areas including:
- General AI platform design and development, covering few-shot/zero-shot on MLLMs, AI labeling, auto prompting, active learning, continued pretraining, and reinforcement learning.
- Integration of content understanding with recommendation systems, including UGC ecosystems, cold-start handling, interest exploration, and comment understanding.
- Leveraging multimodal techniques to build next-generation recommendation systems, such as generative models and end-to-end approaches.

Requirements

Proven experience in multimodal content understanding, with expertise in large language models (LLMs) and familiarity with current progress in the field.
Strong technical foundation in at least one major deep learning framework (e.g., PyTorch or TensorFlow).
Proactive mindset, a strong sense of ownership, excellent communication skills, and ability to collaborate across teams.
Degree attainment: Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline, with completion or recent graduation.
Hands-on experience deploying content understanding solutions in search, advertising, recommendation, or related domains.

Technologies

PyTorch
TensorFlow

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one
401(k) savings plan with company match
Paid parental leave
Short-term and long-term disability coverage
Life insurance
Wellbeing benefits
10 paid holidays per year
10 paid sick days per year
17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)

LA County (Unincorporated) Candidate 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.
Our company believes that 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.

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