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AI Infra Engineer Graduate (Recommendation & LLM) - 2027 Start

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

Core

Build and optimize infrastructure for large-scale model training and online inference for TikTok's For You recommendation system and Large Language Models (LLMs).

Role type

Graduate AI Infrastructure Engineer (LLM & Recommendation Systems)

Builds

Core training and serving infrastructure for one of the world's largest recommendation systems and foundation models

Domain

Internet / AI Infrastructure / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

C++, Python, data structures, algorithms, computer systems, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Transformer architectures, LLMs

Preferred skills

LLM training/inference experience, distributed training concepts (DP, TP, PP, FSDP, ZeRO), GPU programming (CUDA, Triton), LLM serving techniques (KV Cache, Continuous Batching, FlashAttention), open-source contributions

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, CUDA, Triton

Responsibilities

Build and optimize infrastructure for large-scale model training and online inference; Develop distributed systems supporting large recommendation models and LLMs; Improve training and inference performance through GPU optimization and efficient communication; Collaborate with researchers to develop and deploy LLM training and serving solutions; Analyze system bottlenecks and implement performance optimizations

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