AI Agent Engineer for Ad Growth & Innovation

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 388,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Short/long-term disability

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

10 paid sick days per year

17 days of Paid Personal Time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a talented engineer to advance the R&D of AI agents for international advertising growth. You will work on deep learning and large language models to build an end-to-end system for advertiser acquisition and retention, with emphasis on automated task planning, tool invocation, and multimodal interactions.

You will also develop a high-performance Skills toolkit for sales and customer acquisition, and explore self-evolving agent capabilities, while ensuring a robust, scalable

Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, or related fields.
• Hands-on experience with at least one mainstream Agent framework (e.g., LangGraph, OpenClaw, Hermes, Codex, Claude Code, etc.).
• Deep understanding of LLMs and AI Agents; familiarity with ReAct/PlanAct, Multi-Agent systems, Context Engineering and Memory.
• Solid AI/ML background with post-training techniques such as SFT and RLHF; fine-tuning experience is preferred.
• Excellent coding skills with data structures and algorithms; proficiency in C/C++ or Python.
• Strong teamwork, collaboration, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build the core "brain" of an AI agent for the advertising sales domain and track cutting-edge technologies.
• Develop a Skills toolset for advertising sales and customer acquisition scenarios, building reusable Skills.
• Explore Agent automation and self-evolution to improve decision-making and execution capabilities.
• Build stable and reliable Agent infrastructure with performance and stability optimization.

Skills

C/C++

Python

LLMs & AI Agents

Teamwork & communication

Education

Master's degree or higher in CS/AI/NLP

Tools

LangGraph

OpenClaw

Hermes

Codex

Claude Code

Job description

TikTok is seeking a talented engineer to advance the R&D of AI agents for international advertising growth. You will work on deep learning and large language models to build an end-to-end system for advertiser acquisition and retention, with emphasis on automated task planning, tool invocation, and multimodal interactions.

You will also develop a high-performance Skills toolkit for sales and customer acquisition, and explore self-evolving agent capabilities, while ensuring a robust, scalable