Senior ML Engineer: LLMs & Multimodal AI for Local Services

TikTok Inc.

San Jose (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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TikTok in San Jose is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (LLM & Agentic AI - TikTok Local Services) to drive research and development of core algorithms for local services, leveraging LLMs/MLLMs, NLP and multimodal data to improve transaction conversion.

You will build semantic representations, knowledge graphs, and scalable production solutions, collaborating across teams to translate advances into impactful, customer-facing features.

Job description

TikTok is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (LLM & Agentic AI - TikTok Local Services) in San Jose to drive research and development of core algorithms for local services, leveraging LLMs/MLLMs, NLP, and multimodal data to improve transaction conversion.

You will build semantic representations, knowledge graphs, and scalable production solutions, collaborating across teams to translate advances into impactful, customer-facing features.

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