Software Development Engineer Graduate

TikTok

San Jose, CAFresher24m agovia LinkedInH-1B sponsor · 86 entry-level filings

About the Role

Global E-Commerce Team is a content E-commerce business with international short video products as the carrier. It is committed to becoming the first choice for users to discover and purchase good products at affordable prices. The global E-commerce business team hopes to provide users with a more tailored and efficient consumption experience, enabling merchants to receive reliable platform services in different scenarios such as live E-commerce, and short video content E-commerce, so as to make more affordable and high-quality products sell easily and a better life within reach.

As a Software Development Engineer in the Quality team, you will build automation frameworks, testing infrastructure, and intelligent quality capabilities that protect the experiences and transactions of millions of users—all while using AI as an integral part of your daily workflow. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and build robust, high-quality test automation frameworks and tools for functional, regression, and performance testing, improving automated defect detection for both existing and new features.
  • Participate in product requirement and architecture reviews to understand business logic, system architecture, and potential risks, shifting quality activities earlier in the design and development lifecycle.
  • Use AI-assisted development tools throughout the workflow to accelerate coding, test design, and script maintenance. Review AI-generated code and test cases for correctness before deployment.
  • Develop AI-powered testing capabilities, including LLM and agent-based test-data generation, intelligent UI exploration, log analysis, defect detection, triage, and fixing.
  • Support AI-powered product features by designing evaluation datasets and acceptance criteria for scenarios such as search, recommendations, and intelligent customer service. Develop evaluation methods for non-deterministic outputs.
  • Proactively identify quality and stability bottlenecks. Analyze quality metrics, including defect trends, test coverage, and automation stability, and continuously improve engineering processes.

Requirements & Tech Stack

  • Programming languages: Python, Java, Go, or C++
  • AI/ML concepts: Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools, LLMs, prompt engineering, agent development, AI evaluation systems, model-output quality analysis, evaluation-dataset development.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
  • Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networks, and databases.
  • Hands-on experience with at least one programming language, such as Python, Java, Go, or C++, along with a fundamental understanding of system design.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and an understanding of how to validate and review their output.
  • Strong sense of ownership, self-motivation, and ability to learn quickly.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building AI-powered applications or working with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, or agent development through internships or open-source projects.
  • Experience applying AI to test automation, including test-case generation, script development and maintenance, intelligent execution, and defect analysis, to improve testing efficiency and quality.
  • Exposure to AI evaluation systems, model-output quality analysis, or evaluation-dataset development.
  • Demonstrated software engineering or quality engineering experience through internships, professional work, coding competitions, or personal projects.
  • Curiosity about emerging technologies and strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-moving, multicultural, and geographically distributed team.

H-1B sponsor

TikTok filed 86 entry-level H-1B applications for new hires (Oct 2025 - Jun 2026, Department of Labor).

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