TikTok
Machine Learning Engineer (Content Ecology & Creator) -E-commerce Governance
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 1+ years in one of the stated fields.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or above in computer science or a related field.
About the job
Develop machine-learning systems and strategies to improve TikTok Shop creator governance, content quality, risk detection, and ecosystem fairness.
What you'll do
- Build creator quality models and sequence-based systems to detect low-quality or malicious behavior, and develop explainable LLM and RAG governance agents.
- Use heterogeneous graph mining and risk-propagation methods to detect coordinated abuse across content, products, users, and markets.
- Develop multi-objective models and traffic strategies that balance ecosystem growth, governance risk, user complaints, and fair creator exposure.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or above in computer science or a related field.
- Proficiency in Python/C++ and hands-on experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Deep expertise in at least one of NLP/LLM, Graph Neural Networks (GNN), Sequence Modeling, or Machine Learning.
- 1+ years of experience in Content Governance, Trust & Safety, Creator Ecology, or Advertising/Search/Recommendation.
Nice to have
- Production experience with RAG, DPO/RLHF, or Multi-Modal Representation Learning.
- Ability to translate business goals into mathematical definitions and model targets; strong communication skills.
Tools
Python, C++, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LLM, RAG, GNN, DPO/RLHF
AI focus
Applies machine learning, LLM agents and RAG, graph intelligence, sequence modeling, and multi-objective optimization to creator governance, risk detection, content quality, and fairness.
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