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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Recommendation/Search Alliance) - 2027 Start - **Company:** Tiktok Inc. - **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States - **Experience:** Starter - **Salary:** $128,000.0 - $316,800.0 - **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Algorithm Design, Big Data, Data Structures, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Build Management, Information Technology, Search Engines, Multiaccess Edge Computing - **Published:** August 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f40ec0b128ff4e1a ## About the Role * Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research or a related discipline. * Thorough understanding understanding of data structures and algorithms, with excellent problem-solving ability. * Deep Understanding of machine learning, statistics, scaling distributed computing, and big data engineering, * Demonstrated software engineering experience from previous internship, work experience, coding competitions, or publications * Internship experience or research experience, especially in e-commerce, recommendation, search engine * Publications at conferences such as KDD, NeurIPS, WWW, SIGIR, WSDM, CIKM, ICLR, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI. * Curiosity toward new technologies and entrepreneurship * High levels of creativity and quick problem-solving capabilities, 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 ## Description The E-commerce Alliance team connects merchants and creators across the TikTok Shop ecosystem. We help merchants achieve their business goals by building intelligent and automated affiliate operation tools, while providing creators with efficient and highly personalized product recommendations that make it easier to discover the right products and create high-quality content. By improving merchant-creator matching, recommendation, search, and end-to-end collaboration efficiency, we aim to expand merchants' marketing opportunities, increase creators' monetization potential, and deliver a more engaging and personalized shopping experience to TikTok users. Our team works on large-scale recommendation and search systems, intelligent affiliate operations, creator and product understanding, and machine learning solutions that impact commerce growth., * Design and build cutting-edge machine learning, recommendation, and ranking algorithms to power large-scale e-commerce recommendation systems that deliver high-quality, real-time product recommendations for millions of users. * Develop AI-powered merchant operation systems and AI agents that help merchants optimize affiliate strategies, improve business ROI, and lower the barrier to growing their business through automation. * Apply state-of-the-art LLMs , NLP, and multimodal machine learning to discover new business opportunities , driving sustainable growth for both merchants and creators. * Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional teams to bring innovative AI solutions from research to production. * Stay at the forefront of advances in AI and machine learning, rapidly prototyping and productionizing new technologies to shape the future of intelligent commerce. * Build ML-agents to automate algorithm development workflows, accelerating experimentation, model iteration, evaluation, and deployment. ## Related Videos - [Writing a full-text search engine in TypeScript](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/504-writing-a-full-text-search-engine-in-typescript) - [How We Built a Machine Learning-Based Recommendation System (And Survived to Tell the Tale)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/752-how-we-built-a-machine-learning-based-recommendation-system-and-survived-to-tell-the-tale) - [Alibaba Big Data and Machine Learning Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/37-alibaba-big-data-and-machine-learning-technology) - [Phel, a native Lisp for PHP](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/791-phel-a-native-lisp-for-php) - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) - [PySpark - Combining Machine Learning & Big Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/44-pyspark-combining-machine-learning-big-data) ## Related Articles - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [What Are Large Language Models?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/304-what-are-large-language-models) - [Dev Digest 132 - Binging WADFlix?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/473-dev-digest-132-binging-wadflix) - [Dev Digest 118 - not a total recall](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/452-dev-digest-118-not-a-total-recall) - [Dev Digest 137 - AI'm not sure about this](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/485-dev-digest-137-ai-m-not-sure-about-this) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers)