Machine Learning Engineer Graduate

TikTok

San Jose, CAFresher30m agovia LinkedInH-1B sponsor · 86 entry-level filings

About the Role

The Governance and Experience Algorithm team supports e-commerce businesses with advanced AI technology to combat risks and violations, and to build an improved e-commerce ecosystem and platform service capabilities. As a graduate, you will have opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock growth.

Key Responsibilities

  • Identify algorithms for risk, violation, and low-quality issues in e-commerce scenarios (products, shopping cart, short videos, live streaming with products).
  • Mine and identify algorithms to detect fraudulent behaviors and risky, violated, or low-quality merchants and creators.
  • Optimize algorithms for large-scale brand libraries, products, and content deduplication/clustering.
  • Perform data construction, instruction fine-tuning, CoT, alignment, and other work for large models in the e-commerce domain for ultimate effect optimization.
  • Explore reinforcement learning and operational research algorithms in intelligent dispatching and intelligent audit scheduling to improve audit quality and efficiency.

Requirements & Tech Stack

  • Minimum Qualifications:
  • Completing or recently completed a Bachelor's degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
  • Solid coding skills, ability to develop in a Linux environment.
  • Proficient in Python, Go, or C++.
  • Solid foundation in data structures/algorithms.
  • Proficient in machine learning/deep learning theory and practical experience.
  • Familiar with 1-2 areas in natural language processing, computer vision, multimodal, graph algorithms, search algorithms, text/data mining, and LLM.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Passionate about challenging problems.
  • Preferred Qualifications:
  • Completing or recently completed a Master's degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
  • Good team spirit and strong communication skills.
  • Experience in platform governance/audit/risk control/content security or overseas internet/e-commerce business.

Job Information

  • Onboarding Date: Successful candidates must commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.
  • Application Limit: Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions globally across the company and its affiliates. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; applying early is encouraged.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, with a mission to inspire creativity and bring joy.

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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