ML Engineer — E-commerce Risk & Content Safety

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

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.