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Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Recommendation Live) - 2027 Start

Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026

Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline; candidates must be completing or have recently completed the degree.

About the job

Build and optimize recommendation models and systems for TikTok Shop live commerce, from candidate recall through ranking, to improve user experience and business outcomes.

What you'll do

  • Develop and optimize models across recall, pre-ranking, ranking, and mixed ranking; improve GMV, conversion, watch time, and long-term user value.
  • Build cross-domain and multimodal solutions linking videos, live streams, products, and user behavior; advance generative recommendation, large recommendation models, and reinforcement learning.
  • Work with cross-functional teams to launch scalable solutions, run experiments, and translate research into measurable impact.

What they ask for

  • Completing or recently completed a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline.
  • Solid machine learning foundation and knowledge of at least one of recommendation systems, search, advertising, NLP, multimodal learning, or large-scale applied AI.
  • Strong programming skills in Python or C++, with hands-on experience using deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
  • Good understanding of data structures, algorithms, and large-scale model training or production machine learning systems.

Nice to have

  • Experience in recommendation systems or related large-scale consumer products; familiarity with generative recommendation, retrieval and ranking, or recommendation architecture upgrades.
  • Experience with LLMs or multimodal models, cross-domain transfer learning, LTV modeling, long-term value optimization, causal inference, debiasing, or distributed training and inference optimization.

Tools

Python, C++, PyTorch, LLMs

AI focus

Recommendation modeling for live commerce, including generative recommendation, large recommendation models, multimodal learning, reinforcement learning, and long-term value optimization.

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