Machine Learning Engineer Graduate Short Video Content Ecology - 2026 Start (PhD

Machine Learning Engineer Graduate Short Video Content Ecology - 2026 Start (PhD) Join to apply for the Machine Learning Engineer Graduate Short Video Content Ecology - 2026 Start (PhD) role at TikTok Machine Learning Engineer Graduate Short Video Content Ecology - 2026 Start (PhD) Join to apply for the Machine Learning Engineer Graduate Short Video Content Ecology - 2026 Start (PhD) role at TikTok Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. The Content Ecology team aims to leverage AI and machine learning algorithms to build a suite of strategic models and platform solutions that enhance user experience across various sub-businesses under the short video business line. The Content Ecology team aims to leverage AI and machine learning algorithms to build a suite of strategic models and platform solutions that enhance user experience across various sub-businesses under the short video business line. TikTok Intelligent Customer Service: Utilizing large language models to address intelligent customer service and commercial customer service challenges. TikTok Local Services: Employing multimodal understanding technologies to solve content understanding and governance issues in local services. TikTok Search: Applying AI capabilities to provide hot event/topic discovery, event extraction, and summarization for the search business line. TikTok Creator Understanding: Developing multimodal creator modeling and profiling capabilities to support downstream recommendation, search, and content safety applications, enhancing the platforms understanding of creators behavior, styles, and influence. Agentic LLM Applications: Building agent-style LLM systems that can autonomously plan, act, and interact to solve complex user and business problems across domains such as customer service, search, and creator tools. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at TikTok. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early. PhD Degree in Computer Science or a related major. Experienced in programming and algorithmic skills, proficient in languages such as Python or C++. NLP (Natural Language Processing), CV (Computer Vision), LLM (Large Language Models)/MLLM (Multimodal Language Models), Search, or Agentic AI. TensorFlow, PyTorch, or other machine learning frameworks. Experience in building ML model development for large-scale consumer-facing applications. Published papers or hands-on project experience in the fields of NLP, CV, agent-based systems, or multimodal technologies. 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. 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). 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. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; About TikTok TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo. Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Diversity & Inclusion TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. TikTok Accommodation TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. 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