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Machine Learning Engineer, TikTok - Business Governance

  • San Jose, California, USA
  • On-site
  • First seen Nov 15, 2026

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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

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Machine Learning Engineer, TikTok - Business Governance 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).

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About this role

- About the Team We are building next-generation Trust & Safety systems powered by large language models and multimodal foundation models to protect TikTok, Lemon8, and short-form video platforms. Our team focuses on multimodal reasoning, content understanding, and large-scale risk detection across text, image, audio, and video. We actively explore and productionize cutting-edge technologies such as LLM post-training, multimodal models, and AI Agents to build intelligent, scalable, and adaptive content moderation systems. - Responsibilities - What You'II Do - Develop content safety algorithms for TikTok, Lemon8, and short-form drama platforms, covering multimodal understanding and risk detection across video, text, image, and audio - Leverage machine learning, deep learning, and large model technologies to improve content moderation pipelines, enhance operational efficiency, and ensure model robustness and production stability - Own the training and application of LLMs and MLLMs for content safety use cases, including post-training techniques such as SFT, RLHF, DPO, and safety alignment - Drive the exploration and productionization of emerging capabilities such as AI Agents, multimodal reasoning, and video understanding to build next-generation intelligent moderation systems Qualifications Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or related fields - Strong understanding of machine learning and deep learning, with familiarity with Transformer architectures, LLMs, and MLLMs - Hands-on experience in Python, PyTorch, distributed training, and large-scale data processing, with solid algorithmic and engineering capabilities - Proven ability to solve complex problems and collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams, with a track record of driving projects to high-quality execution Preferred Qualifications: - Hands-on experience with LLM post-training, multimodal understanding, AI Agents, or Trust & Safety systems is desirable - Publications in academic conferences such as NeurIPS、ICML、ICLR、CVPR、ECCV、ICCV、ACL、EMNLP、NAACL、Interspeech、ICASSP, and others are a strong plus

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