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Research Scientist – E-commerce Recommendation(LLM Applications) - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)

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

Experience
Completing or recently completed a PhD; no number of years specified.
Education
PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

About the job

Research and develop LLM-based and generative recommendation algorithms and systems for TikTok Shop, including content-to-commerce matching and product summarization.

What you'll do

  • Design algorithms and systems using LLMs and generative models for content-to-commerce matching and product summarization.
  • Explore architectures and strategies for generative recommendation systems.
  • Contribute through internal papers, patents, or external publications while balancing scientific rigor with real-world constraints.

What they ask for

  • Completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Strong machine-learning foundation and knowledge of cutting-edge AI technologies.
  • Familiarity with big data frameworks such as Hadoop, MapReduce, and Spark.
  • Experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch for model training and deployment, and understanding of mixed precision and distributed training.

Nice to have

  • Publications in accredited academic conferences or competition experience.
  • Knowledge of model compression or inference acceleration, or expertise in computer vision, multimodality, or NLP.

Tools

Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, TensorFlow, PyTorch, TensorRT, SGLang

AI focus

Build multimodal e-commerce foundation models and agent systems, advancing generative recommendation, recommendation LLMs, item tokenization, and intelligent e-commerce workflows.

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