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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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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)