Machine Learning Engineer - TikTok Short Video Content Understanding/Multimodal Recommendation
Ellis Technologies
San Jose, CA · $156k–$388k a year · Posted November 6, 2026
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About the job
... Machine Learning Engineer - TikTok Short Video Content Understanding/Multimodal Recommendation Location: San Jose Employment Type: Regular Job Code: A42257 Responsibilities Lead multimodal algorithm development for TikTok’s short-video business, explore applications...