Senior Machine Learning Engineer, TikTok Core Feed Recommendation - Dedup
TikTok
San Jose, CA · Posted November 13, 2026
Just laid off? Start here: a plan for the first weeks
More in California job market · Senior Machine Learning Engineer jobs in California (92) · All Senior Machine Learning Engineer jobs (242) · Technology & Software · Data & Analytics jobs
More roles at TikTok
- Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation, Alliance E-Commerce · Seattle, WA
- Account Manager - CPG Care, Global Business Solutions
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer (CV/NLP/Multimodal/LLM) -E-commerce Governance · Seattle, WA
- TikTok Shop - Category Manager, Luxury Resale · Los Angeles, CA
- Machine Learning Engineer - TikTok-Data-Search-Search Quality · San Jose, CA
- Machine Learning Engineer, Search - Local Services Team · San Jose, CA
Similar jobs
- Senior Analyst, Clinical Data Management · Edwards Lifesciences · Irvine, CA
- AI Research Engineer III · Agility Robotics · Fremont, CA
- Senior Software Engineer I - Data Engineering · Rocket Lab · Long Beach, CA
- Senior AI Application Engineer, Creator Tools · Roblox · San Mateo, CA
- Senior Data Analyst, Moderation Operations · Roblox · San Mateo, CA
- Lead Biostatistician (IVD Analytical) · Natera · San Carlos, CA
Where San Jose, CA ranks
Where San Jose, CA placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.
November 2026
- #1Best cities for marketing pay after cost of living$204k · of 16
- #1Best cities for aerospace and defense pay after cost of living$187k · of 19
- #2Best cities for security pay after cost of living$220k · of 10
- #3Best cities for technology pay after cost of living$205k · of 80
- #5Best cities for technology jobs1,449 openings · of 100
- #5Cities with the most jobs that do not need a four-year degree in the West Coast162 jobs · of 47
Rankings about data & analytics jobs
- Best cities for data and analytics jobs #1 New York (1,713 openings)
- Best cities for data and analytics pay after cost of living #1 Foster ($232k)
- Most requested AI skills in data and analytics jobs #1 Machine learning engineering (17.1%)
- AI tools named most often in data and analytics jobs #1 Databricks (7.6%)
- Employers with the most data and analytics jobs #1 Amazon (711 roles)
Data & Analytics jobs · Top Data & Analytics employers · All rankings
Pay compared with the market
This listing does not state pay. Across 80 open senior machine learning engineer listings that state pay, the middle half runs $197,500 to $229,000 and the median is $201,500.
Listed pay is what employers advertise, not what people are paid.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer salaries by state · Check your own pay
TikTok has filed one layoff notice in the last twelve months, covering 250 workers, most recently August 2026. These are public filings with state labor departments, and an open role can sit alongside them. See the filings
Skills this job asks for
Say which you have and which you want to build. We use it to match you to jobs like this one.
About the job
About the Team Dedup team drives research and develops cutting-edge AI technologies that power core product experiences. Our work focuses on building large-scale, high-performance systems that support key strategies such as video deduplication, originality recognition, copyright detection, content safety, and content moderation. We are committed to delivering a seamless and safe user experience by pushing the boundaries of AI in production environments.
Responsibilities 1. Build and scale the Dedup and Copyright system that supports billions of users globally 2. Design and deploy machine learning models to support video understanding and content integrity 3. Integrate cutting-edge AI technologies to improve model accuracy, performance, and system efficiency 4. Develop scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to support training and serving of ML models on real-time, unstructured data 5. Run experiments to evaluate and debug models in production environments 6. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth deployment and monitoring of ML systems
Minimum Qualifications 1. Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or a related field 2. Minimum 3 years of industry experience in Machine Learning 3. Proficiency with at least one deep learning framework (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) 4. Experience in Multimedia or Computer Vision areas such as image/video/audio retrieval, representation learning, re-identification, or unsupervised/self-supervised learning
Preferred Qualifications 1. Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field 2. Experience working in large-scale production environments or high-growth tech companies