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Responsibilities

Responsible for building the next-generation AI Agent-powered intelligent growth platform that serves millions of advertisers and reaches billions of users every day. We are embedding LLM reasoning, multimodal perception, and autonomous decision-making directly into the full advertising lifecycle - from ad creation and creative generation to bidding strategy, attribution, and measurement, helping businesses worldwide efficiently connect with customers and achieve commercial success on TikTok.

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.

Key Responsibilities:
- Architect & build AI Agent systems.
- Work on backend development of TikTok's proprietary CRM platform.
- Build enterprise-grade solutions serving millions of customers and supporting billions in revenue.
- Build a globalized CRM System with high performance and availability across multiple regions.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with Product, Operations, Sales, and Data Science teams to utilize AI capabilities into measurable growth outcomes.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's or Mster's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Hands-on experience with AI Agents and Multi-Agent workflows (e.g., autonomous task execution, agent collaboration).
- Deep familiarity with engineering patterns such as MCP (Model Context Protocol), RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), and Code Embedding.
- Experience with big data components including Spark, OLAP engines and Flink is a plus, but not required.
- Familiarity with Elastic Search and key/value stores (Redis, Memcached etc) is a plus.
- Familiarity with Message Queue (Kafka, RabbitMQ, RocketMQ etc) is a plus.
- Familiarity with CRM platforms and Ad Sales automated processes is a plus.
- Experience with Java is preferred.
- Experience with Spring Boot and/or other Microservice frameworks is preferred.
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres etc) is preferred.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $128000 - $256000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. 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.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. 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).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

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. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

Responsibilities

Qualifications

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's or Mster's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Hands-on experience with AI Agents and Multi-Agent workflows (e.g., autonomous task execution, agent collaboration).
- Deep familiarity with engineering patterns such as MCP (Model Context Protocol), RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), and Code Embedding.
- Experience with big data components including Spark, OLAP engines and Flink is a plus, but not required.
- Familiarity with Elastic Search and key/value stores (Redis, Memcached etc) is a plus.
- Familiarity with Message Queue (Kafka, RabbitMQ, RocketMQ etc) is a plus.
- Familiarity with CRM platforms and Ad Sales automated processes is a plus.
- Experience with Java is preferred.
- Experience with Spring Boot and/or other Microservice frameworks is preferred.
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres etc) is preferred.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.

Size: 5,001 - 10,000 employees
Industry: Entertainment & Gaming

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