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Machine Learning Software Engineer Graduate (TikTok Content Ecology) - 2027 Start (PhD)

San Jose, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Build next-generation AI products and scalable platform capabilities for content creation, discovery, and governance across TikTok globally.

Role type

PhD-level Machine Learning Software Engineer (Agentic AI & Multimodal)

Builds

LLM/MLLM, Agent, NLP, CV, and recommendation models; Agentic AI frameworks; multimodal AI solutions

Domain

Social Media / Content Platform / Generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, C++, TensorFlow, PyTorch, LLMs/MLLMs (Post-Training, Inference), Deep Learning fundamentals, Distributed computing

Preferred skills

Agentic AI architectures (planning, tool use, memory), LangChain, LlamaIndex, Top-tier AI conference publications

Technologies

TensorFlow, PyTorch, LangChain, LlamaIndex

Responsibilities

Develop and optimize LLM/MLLM, Agent, NLP, CV, and recommendation models; Design and build Agentic AI frameworks; Implement multimodal AI solutions integrating video, text, and speech; Train and fine-tune deep learning models; Deploy and scale ML solutions in distributed environments

Seniority

PhD, Research-to-Production IC

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