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TikTok

Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (Conversational AI) - 2027 Start

San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026

Experience
Graduate role; candidates must be completing or have recently completed a bachelor’s degree. No years of experience specified.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline.

About the job

Build and improve TikTok Shop’s production conversational AI agent system for global e-commerce customer service, including its runtime, learning loop, evaluation, and experimentation systems.

What you'll do

  • Develop agent runtime, safety guardrails, tools, and context and memory management for long multi-turn conversations.
  • Build post-training and data flywheel systems that convert served conversations into training, evaluation, and retrieval signals.
  • Create trustworthy evaluation and online experimentation systems, including regression checks, canaries, A/B tests, and causal readouts.

What they ask for

  • Completing or recently completed a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline.
  • Strong Python plus one of C++, Go, Rust, or Java.
  • Solid ML/DL/NLP fundamentals and hands-on LLM or agent experience through coursework, research, internship, competition, open source, or a serious side project.
  • Basic statistical literacy and ability to turn a paper or engineering blog into working code.

Nice to have

  • Built an agent runtime, memory/context system, RAG or tool-use agent, or fine-tuned/post-trained model.
  • Experience in post-training, agent systems, evaluation and experimentation, self-improving systems, inference/serving, or multilingual NLP.

Tools

Python, C++, Go, Rust, Java, SFT, DPO, RL, MCP

AI focus

Build a self-evolving conversational AI agent for global e-commerce customer service, including agent runtime, memory and context engineering, post-training, tool use, evaluation, and online experimentation.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)