Graduate LLM Engineer for E-commerce AI

TikTok Economic Impact; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Holidays & PTO

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC in Seattle is seeking Regular R&D Future Talent 2027 graduates to help architect and build sophisticated LLM-based systems that process high-dimensional data from diverse sources.

You will work on semantic understanding, instruction tuning, and production-ready model serving optimization, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful AI solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Statistics, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop LLM-based systems to process high-dimensional unstructured data.
• Define and implement semantic understanding frameworks with fine-grained intent classification and entity extraction.
• Apply state-of-the-art techniques to enhance model performance (Instruction Tuning, RLHF/DPO, Contextual Prompt Engineering).
• Optimize model serving in production using quantization, distillation, and efficient attention (FlashAttention, vLLM).

Skills

C++

Python

Go

Java

NLP

Machine Learning

Multilingual NLP

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering/Math/Statistics

Tools

FlashAttention

vLLM

Quantization

Distillation

RLHF

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC in Seattle is seeking Regular R&D Future Talent 2027 graduates to help architect and build sophisticated LLM-based systems that process high-dimensional data from diverse sources.

You will work on semantic understanding, instruction tuning, and production-ready model serving optimization, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful AI solutions.