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

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

Education
Completing or recently completed a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or a related discipline.

About the job

Build and improve TikTok Shop live-commerce recommendation systems to connect users with relevant videos, live streams, and products and improve business and user outcomes.

What you'll do

  • Build and optimize models across recall, pre-ranking, ranking, and mixed ranking.
  • Develop cross-domain and multimodal models for live-commerce recommendations.
  • Work with cross-functional teams to launch scalable solutions, run experiments, and measure 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 experience in at least one of recommendation systems, search, advertising, NLP, multimodal learning, or large-scale applied AI.
  • Strong Python or C++ programming skills and hands-on experience with deep-learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
  • Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and large-scale model training or production machine-learning systems.

Nice to have

  • Experience with recommendation systems, especially in live commerce, e-commerce, search, ads, or large-scale consumer products.
  • Experience with generative recommendation, large recommendation models, LLMs, multimodal foundation models, or related modeling and optimization areas.

Tools

Python, C++, PyTorch, LLMs

AI focus

Develop recommendation models and technologies, including generative recommendation, large recommendation models, reinforcement learning, multimodal representation learning, and long-term value optimization.

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