TikTok
Machine Learning Engineer - E-Commerce Recommendation Live
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of industry experience; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and operate TikTok Shop LIVE recommendation systems across discovery, ranking, retrieval, and long-term value, from model development through online launch.
What you'll do
- Scale recommendation foundation models and convert offline improvements into online results under latency and compute constraints.
- Develop multimodal generative retrieval, cross-domain recommendation, reward models, and LLM-agent optimization for live commerce.
- Own end-to-end work spanning problem framing, data pipelines, training, serving, A/B testing, and launch.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
- 3+ years of industry experience in recommendation, search, advertising, or other large-scale applied machine learning, with shipped models that improved online metrics.
- Strong machine learning fundamentals and hands-on depth in at least one listed area: retrieval and ranking, sequential user modeling, multi-task learning, generative recommendation, or LLM / multimodal modeling.
- Proficiency in Python and/or C++, and solid experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow, including distributed training and model optimization.
Nice to have
- Experience in e-commerce or live-streaming recommendation, ads ranking, or other real-time, conversion-driven systems.
- Experience with large recommendation models, generative recommendation, LLM / MLLM post-training, LLM agents, or large-scale training and inference efficiency.
Tools
Python, C++, PyTorch, TensorFlow, SFT, DPO, GRPO, RLHF
AI focus
Develop and apply large recommendation models, multimodal and generative recommendation, reward models and RL post-training, and LLM agents for live-commerce ranking, retrieval, and system optimization.
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