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Content Understanding LLM Algorithm Engineer Graduate (Global E-Commerce) - 2027 Start (PhD)

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Responsibilities

About the Team
Through algorithm optimization and collaboration with business teams, the team conducts comprehensive quality and ecosystem governance for e-commerce products. This involves combating risks, violations, and low-quality issues, as well as constructing and optimizing the e-commerce ecosystem. The team aims to maximize platform governance effectiveness while improving operational efficiency and reducing costs. Additionally, the team is dedicated to advancing cutting-edge AI technologies to drive business transformation and development through technical innovation, covering diverse fields including but not limited to NLP, CV, multimodal models, large models, graph algorithms, and sequence algorithms.

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.

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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
- Large language Model Algorithm Development: Build domain-specific large language models (LLM/MLLM) for e-commerce, integrating domain knowledge to rapidly apply models to business scenarios.
- E-commerce Governance Optimization: Understand e-commerce governance scenarios deeply to improve merchant/product/video/live-stream/IPR governance through algorithm optimization. Develop state-of-the-art intelligent review systems capable of "knowing why to reject" decisions.
- Model Enhancement: Handle tasks like data construction, foundational model enhancement, instruction fine-tuning, chain-of-thought (CoT) , and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) to achieve optimal model performance in the e-commerce domain.
- Problem Solving for Governance Applications: Address challenges such as long text/sequence modeling, few-shot learning, content moderation, violation detection, and policy recommendation using large models and multimodal approaches.
- Model Development and Optimization: Research and optimize e-commerce-specific NLP and multimodal large models to improve multilingual, multi-task, and multi-modal algorithm performance across various e-commerce scenarios.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a PhD degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Possess solid programming skills, a strong foundation in data structures and algorithms, and proficiency in using various algorithmic and engineering frameworks.
- Strong foundation in machine learning, with in-depth understanding and research experience in deep learning, reinforcement learning, NLP, or multimodal learning.
- Demonstrate good communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with the team to explore new technologies and drive technical innovation.

Preferred Qualifications
- Prior publications in international conferences or journals (including but not limited to ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR) are preferred.
- Strong practical abilities, with achievements in competitions like Kaggle, GLUE, Super GLUE, CLUE, etc.

Client-provided location(s): Singapore
Job ID: TikTok-7667726038367963397
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2026-08-03T20:01:19

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • HSA
    • Life Insurance
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • On-Site Gym
    • Mental Health Benefits
    • Virtual Fitness Classes
  • Parental Benefits

    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Casual Dress
    • Snacks
    • Pet-friendly Office
    • Happy Hours
    • Some Meals Provided
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Performance Bonus
    • Company Equity
  • Professional Development

    • Promote From Within
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
    • Mentor Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

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