Senior Engineering Leader - Agentic AI Platform

TikTok Inc.

San Jose (CA)

On-site

USD 308,000 - 588,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

TikTok Inc. is seeking a senior AI architect for the PGC team to define enterprise-grade agent platforms, design multi-agent systems, and guide AI-native development across global ops.

You will partner with infrastructure, product, and operations to scale automation and deliver measurable business impact. The role requires hands-on experience with large-scale AI infra, transformers, and agent toolchains, plus leadership of cross-functional teams to push innovation and reliability across TikTok’s

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree or above in CS/AI/Math or related field with strong software engineering or ML background.
  • Hands-on experience building production-grade AI systems, agent platforms, or enterprise-scale AI infra.
  • Strong understanding of Transformer-based LLM tech (GPT, Claude, Llama, Qwen) and SFT/RLHF.

Responsibilities

  • Define technical strategy and architecture for enterprise-grade AI platforms.
  • Design and build agent frameworks, multi-agent systems, and extensible tool ecosystems.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks and data flywheels to improve agent performance.
  • Partner with infrastructure teams on data security and governance.
  • Own the Agentic AI platform roadmap for global TikTok ecosystem.
  • Collaborate with ops and product teams to identify automation opportunities.
  • Drive platform adoption and cross-functional AI initiatives.
  • Lead teams across AI/ML, Engineering, Platform Product, and Ops.

Skills

LLM technologies
Agent frameworks
Distributed systems
Software engineering

Education

Master's degree or above in Computer Science/AI/Math

Tools

LangChain
LlamaIndex
AutoGen
Semantic Kernel

Job description

TikTok Inc. is seeking a senior AI architect for the PGC team to define enterprise-grade agent platforms, design multi-agent systems, and guide AI-native development across global ops.

You will partner with infrastructure, product, and operations to scale automation and deliver measurable business impact. The role requires hands-on experience with large-scale AI infra, transformers, and agent toolchains, plus leadership of cross-functional teams to push innovation and reliability across TikTok’s

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