Software Development Engineer Graduate (Global E-Commerce-Quality Platform & AI Test Automation) - 2027 Start

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 256,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is hiring a Software Development Engineer in Quality to build AI‑driven testing tools and automation frameworks. You’ll contribute to scalable testing for live E‑commerce and video content flows used by millions of users.

A strong candidate will combine software engineering with quality engineering, pursue bold ideas, and collaborate across a global, fast-paced team. Successful graduates should indicate their availability and anticipated graduation date in the resume.

Qualifications

• Completed or recent CS degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, OS, networks and databases.
• Hands-on coding with Python/Java/Go/C++. Understanding of system design.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and evaluating their outputs.
• Proactive ownership, motivation, and quick learning ability.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust test automation frameworks for functional, regression and performance testing.
• Participate in reviews to understand business logic and architecture; shift quality left.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate coding, test design, and maintenance; review AI outputs.
• Develop AI-powered testing capabilities, including data generation and intelligent exploration.
• Contribute to evaluation methods for AI features and ensure non-deterministic outputs are well-handled.
• Identify bottlenecks and improve quality metrics and automation stability.

Skills

Bachelor's degree in CS

CS fundamentals (data structures, algs

Programming in Python/Java/Go/C++

AI-assisted development tools

Ownership and self‑motivation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

LLM APIs

Job description

Global E-Commerce Team is a content E-commerce business with international short video products as the carrier. It is committed to becoming the first choice for users to discover and purchase good products at affordable prices. The global E-commerce business team hopes to provide users with a more tailored and efficient consumption experience, enabling merchants to receive reliable platform services in different scenarios such as live E-commerce, and short video content E-commerce, so as to make more affordable and high-quality products sell easily and a better life within reach.

As a Software Development Engineer in Quality team, you will build automation frameworks, testing infrastructure, and intelligent quality capabilities that protect the experiences and transactions of millions of users-all while using AI as an integral part of your daily workflow.

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.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust, high-quality test automation frameworks and tools for functional, regression, and performance testing, improving automated defect detection for both existing and new features.
• Participate in product requirement and architecture reviews to understand business logic, system architecture, and potential risks, shifting quality activities earlier in the design and development lifecycle.
• Use AI-assisted development tools throughout the workflow to accelerate coding, test design, and script maintenance. Review AI-generated code and test cases for correctness before deployment.
• Develop AI-powered testing capabilities, including LLM and agent-based test-data generation, intelligent UI exploration, log analysis, defect detection, triage and fixing.
• Support AI-powered product features by designing evaluation datasets and acceptance criteria for scenarios such as search, recommendations, and intelligent customer service. Develop evaluation methods for non-deterministic outputs.
• Proactively identify quality and stability bottlenecks. Analyze quality metrics, including defect trends, test coverage, and automation stability, and continuously improve engineering processes.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networks, and databases.
• Hands‑on experience with at least one programming language, such as Python, Java, Go, or C++, along with a fundamental understanding of system design.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and an understanding of how to validate and review their output.
• Strong sense of ownership, self‑motivation, and ability to learn quickly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building AI-powered applications or working with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, or agent development through internships or open-source projects.
• Experience applying AI to test automation, including test‑case generation, script development and maintenance, intelligent execution, and defect analysis, to improve testing efficiency and quality.
• Exposure to AI evaluation systems, model‑output quality analysis, or evaluation‑dataset development.
• Demonstrated software engineering or quality engineering experience through internships, professional work, coding competitions, or personal projects.
• Curiosity about emerging technologies and strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast‑moving, multicultural, and geographically distributed team.

Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $128000 - $256000 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:

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