AI Engineer (Graduate) – AI-Driven Infra & R&D

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is hiring for its General Architecture team to advance AI-native engineering infrastructure and scalable platform solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive AI-enabled development, improve R&D efficiency, and maintain system stability across large codebases.

Qualifications include a CS degree, hands-on development, system design ability, and strong problem-solving. This full-time role emphasizes learning and impactful contributions in a fast-growing tech company.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field.
• Hands-on software development experience and ability to deliver features.
• End-to-end delivery across client/server/data layers.
• Basic system design ability and understanding of build/dependency management/CI/CD.
• Interest in engineering/infrastructure work and AI-assisted engineering.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Explore and implement AI-Native Engineering Infrastructure with AI Agents as first-class citizens.
• Use AI to drive maintenance, refactoring, diagnosis/repair, CI/CD optimization and knowledge management.
• Establish evaluation standards for AI-assisted R&D efficiency and measure productivity and stability.
• Design architectures, interfaces, and frameworks for AI-driven scenarios.
• Stay current with tech, evaluate and adopt new tools/frameworks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable platform solutions.

Skills

Bachelor's degree in CS

Hands-on software development

End-to-end delivery mindset

System design ability

CI/CD / automation interest

Strong communication

AI-assisted engineering interest

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Observability tooling

Automation tools

Job description

TikTok is hiring for its General Architecture team to advance AI-native engineering infrastructure and scalable platform solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive AI-enabled development, improve R&D efficiency, and maintain system stability across large codebases.

Qualifications include a CS degree, hands-on development, system design ability, and strong problem-solving. This full-time role emphasizes learning and impactful contributions in a fast-growing tech company.