Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Governance) - 2027 Start

TikTok; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Job summary

TikTok in Seattle is seeking graduates for roles in the Governance and Experience Algorithm team. You will work on AI-driven risk detection across products, shopping, and live content, contributing to a safer e-commerce ecosystem.

You will help identify and optimize algorithms for fraud detection, content quality, and large-scale model training, with opportunities for reinforcement learning exploration and efficiency improvements in auditing processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or 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 rich 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.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Bachelor's degree in Software Dev/CS/C

Linux development

Python

Go

C++

Data structures & algorithms

Machine learning theory

NLP/CV/Multimodal/LLM

Analytical problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Development, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering

Master's degree in Software Development, Computer Science, or related discipline

Tools

Linux

Job description

Discover a career that energizes and excites you every day.

@2026 TikTok

Technology

Location:

Seattle

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code:

A120384A

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Responsibilities

The Governance and Experience Algorithm team was established in September 2020 and its main job is to support the following businesses with the most advanced AI technology:

• Combat any kinds of risks/violations issues in E-commerce scenarios.
• Build an E-commerce ecosystem and improve platform service capabilities.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.

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

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Individuals who are completing or have 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 rich 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:

• Individuals who are completing or have 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

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $121600 - $243200 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
• Exercising sound judgment.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok Accommodation

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request