Graduate ML Engineer: E‑Commerce Recommendations & Search

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 317,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok in San Jose is recruiting a Machine Learning Engineer Graduate for 2027 start. You will design and deploy ML-powered recommendation and search solutions across the TikTok Shop ecosystem, collaborating with product and engineering teams to push innovations from research to production.

The role emphasizes handling large-scale data, building AI agents for merchant optimization, and applying multilingual and multimodal ML techniques to improve user experiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Deep knowledge of machine learning, statistics, distributed computing, and big data engineering.
• Demonstrated software engineering experience from internships, work, competitions, or publications.
• Experience in e-commerce, recommendation, or search.
• Publications at major conferences (KDD, NeurIPS, WWW, SIGIR, WSDM, CIKM, ICLR, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI).
• Curiosity toward new technologies and entrepreneurship.
• High levels of creativity and quick problem-solving capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design and build cutting-edge machine learning, recommendation, and ranking algorithms for large-scale e-commerce systems delivering real-time product recommendations.
• Develop AI-powered merchant operation systems and AI agents to optimize affiliate strategies and automate growth.
• Apply state-of-the-art LLMs, NLP, and multimodal ML to discover new business opportunities and drive growth for merchants and creators.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional teams to bring AI solutions from research to production.
• Stay at the forefront of AI advances, prototyping and productionizing new technologies to shape intelligent commerce.
• Build ML-agents to automate algorithm development workflows, accelerating experimentation, model iteration, evaluation, and deployment.

Skills

Machine learning

Problem solving

Distributed computing

Big data

Software engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research

Job description

TikTok in San Jose is recruiting a Machine Learning Engineer Graduate for 2027 start. You will design and deploy ML-powered recommendation and search solutions across the TikTok Shop ecosystem, collaborating with product and engineering teams to push innovations from research to production.

The role emphasizes handling large-scale data, building AI agents for merchant optimization, and applying multilingual and multimodal ML techniques to improve user experiences.