ML Engineer: Creator Governance & Content Ecosystem

TikTok Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 301,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Short-term and long-term disability

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays

10 paid sick days

17 days Paid Personal Time

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is expanding its Governance & Experience Algorithm Team in Seattle, focusing on building a prosperous and fair global e-commerce ecosystem. You will work with LLM agents, RAG, GNN, and sequence modeling to govern creator activity, detect risks, and promote high-quality content.

Join a team that shapes policy-aware AI systems, balances creator fairness with platform health, and drives innovative solutions across Content Governance, Trust & Safety, and marketplace optimization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science or related field.
• Proficient in Python/C++ with strong hands-on experience in PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Deep expertise in NLP/LLM, Graph Neural Networks, Sequence Modeling, or ML.
• 1+ years of experience in Content Governance, Trust & Safety, Creator Ecology, or Advertising/Search/Recommendation.

Responsibilities

• Develop signal-driven creator profiling and quality scores.
• Build LLM + RAG governance systems with explainable reasoning.
• Create heterogeneous graphs to uncover relationships and detect bad actors.
• Apply multi-objective optimization and fairness algorithms to balance ecosystem metrics.

Skills

Python/C++

PyTorch

TensorFlow

NLP/LLM

Graph Neural Networks

Sequence Modeling

Content Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree or above in computer science

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

TikTok Inc. is expanding its Governance & Experience Algorithm Team in Seattle, focusing on building a prosperous and fair global e-commerce ecosystem. You will work with LLM agents, RAG, GNN, and sequence modeling to govern creator activity, detect risks, and promote high-quality content.

Join a team that shapes policy-aware AI systems, balances creator fairness with platform health, and drives innovative solutions across Content Governance, Trust & Safety, and marketplace optimization.