TikTok
Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Recommendation/Search Alliance) - 2027 Start
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, or a related discipline; completing or recently completed.
About the job
Build and productionize machine-learning, recommendation, search, and AI-agent systems that improve product discovery and merchant–creator commerce operations on TikTok Shop.
What you'll do
- Design recommendation and ranking algorithms for large-scale, real-time e-commerce systems.
- Develop AI-powered merchant tools and agents to automate affiliate operations and improve business ROI.
- Apply LLMs, NLP, and multimodal machine learning, and collaborate to take AI solutions from research to production.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, or a related discipline.
- Thorough understanding of data structures and algorithms, with strong problem-solving ability.
- Deep understanding of machine learning, statistics, scaling distributed computing, and big data engineering.
Nice to have
- Software engineering experience through internships, work, coding competitions, or publications.
- Internship or research experience, especially in e-commerce, recommendation, or search; publications at listed conferences are also valued.
Tools
LLMs, NLP
AI focus
Develop recommendation and ranking systems, AI-powered merchant-operation tools and agents, apply LLMs, NLP, and multimodal machine learning, and build ML agents to automate algorithm-development workflows.
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