TikTok USDS Joint Venture
Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendations - USDS E-commerce Alliance
San Jose, California
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The bottom of this range ($122,574) is below the Level I prevailing wage of $152,797. An H-1B cannot be filed below the prevailing wage, so an offer at the floor of this band could not be sponsored as posted.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $187,075 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- The e-commerce alliance team aims to serve merchants and creators in the e-commerce platform to meet merchants' business indicators and improve creators' creative efficiency. By cooperating with merchants and creators, we aim to provide high-quality content and a personalized shopping experience for TikTok users, create efficient shopping tools at seller
- centers, and promote cooperation between merchants and creators.
Responsibilities
- By cooperating with merchants and creators, we aim to provide high-quality content and a personalized shopping experience for TikTok users, create efficient shopping tools at seller centers, and promote cooperation between merchants and creators.
- Optimize TikTok's massive commodity relationship mining and ranking and recall of creators' product recommendations, and improve the overall GMV of the platform
- Use the large scale of data to deeply analyze the behavior of creators and merchants and build targeted algorithm strategies to empower creators and merchants, improve merchants' monetization efficiency, and boost industrial upgrading
- Support the rapid development of TikTok's e-commerce business, serve millions of merchants, explore more efficient business models, satisfy users with the best shopping experience, and promote healthy ecological development
- Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
- We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company.
- When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related fields.
- Experience with at least one programming language like C++/Python or equivalent.
Nice to have
- The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025.
- Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm.
- We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation.
- Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission.
- Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect - and our global, diverse teams make that possible.
- Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team.
- We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come.
- By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users.
Compensation
- 【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
Company info
- We strive to do great things with great people.
- At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.
- To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach.
- We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
Equal opportunity
- USDS Reasonable Accommodation
- If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
This listing is sourced directly from TikTok USDS Joint Venture's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.