Software Engineer Graduate (TikTok AI Search & Visual Search Infra Team) - 2027 Start
TikTok, San Jose, California
The role
Our work spans both foundational search engine infrastructure and the rapidly evolving AI Search technology stack. We build large-scale indexing and retrieval systems, multimodal search infrastructure, multi-agent and RAG engines, and high-performance LLM/VLM training and serving platforms. As an engineer on the team, you will have the opportunity to work on challenging problems across AI Agents, RAG, LLM/VLM inference/training, distributed systems, search engines and multimodal machine learning.
You will collaborate closely with engineers, researchers, and product teams to help shape the next generation of TikTok Search. We embrace a culture of self-direction, intellectual curiosity, openness, and problem-solving.
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. Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to our Company and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.