# Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Governance) - 2027 Start (PhD) Source: https://realanalystjobs.com/job/machine-learning-engineer-graduate-e-commerce-governance-2027-start-phd-tiktok-9d659a08 Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Governance) - 2027 Start (PhD) at TikTok, an on-site role based in San Jose, California, USA. First seen on RealAnalystJobs on 15 November 2026, read from TikTok's own careers page (TikTok), which RealAnalystJobs re-checks daily and removes the role when it closes. TikTok has approved H-1B petitions on USCIS record (employer-wide, not a promise for this role). Updated 15 November 2026. ## Key facts - Company: [TikTok](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/tiktok) - Location: San Jose, California, USA - Work mode: On-site - First seen: Nov 15, 2026 - Employment type: Full time - Source: TikTok's careers page (TikTok), re-checked daily Skills: [Python](https://realanalystjobs.com/skills/python) ## Visa sponsorship The posting does not say. TikTok had H-1B petitions approved for 454 workers in fiscal year 2026 (USCIS). That is history, not a promise for this role. [See the record](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/tiktok#h1b-record) ## About this role The Governance and Experience Algorithm team was established in September 2020 and its main job is to support the following businesses with the most advanced AI technology： - Combat any kinds of risks/violations issues in E-commerce scenarios. - Build an E-commerce ecosystem and improve platform service capabilities 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: - Responsible for identifying algorithms for risk/violation/low-quality issues in e-commerce scenarios such as products, shopping cart short videos, and live streaming with products. - Responsible for mining and identifying algorithms to detect fraudulent behaviors and identify risky, violated, or low-quality merchants and creators. - Responsible for optimizing algorithms for large-scale brand libraries, products, and content deduplication/clustering. - Responsible for data construction, instruction fine-tuning, CoT, alignment, and other work for large models in the e-commerce domain, aiming for ultimate effect optimization in the e-commerce domain. - Responsible for exploring reinforcement learning and operational research algorithms in intelligent dispatching and intelligent audit scheduling to improve audit quality and efficiency. Qualifications Minimum Qualifications: - Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related discipline. - Solid coding skills, ability to develop in a Linux environment, proficient in Python, Go, or C++ - Solid foundation in data structures/algorithms, proficient in machine learning/deep learning theory, and rich practical experience - Familiar with 1-2 areas in natural language processing, computer vision, multimodal, graph algorithms, search algorithms, text/data mining, and LLM - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, passionate about challenging problems Preferred Qualifications: - Good team spirit and strong communication skills - Experience in platform governance/audit/risk control/content security or overseas internet/e-commerce business Description from TikTok's public careers feed, reproduced so you can read the role here. 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