TikTok

Software Engineer, AI Agent

TikTok$156K — $316K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • MS or higher in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or related field
  • 1+ years of software engineering experience in the internet industry
  • Strong understanding of AI Agent architectures and hands-on experience with relevant tools
  • Proficient in system design and developing technical solutions for complex problems
  • Excellent teamwork and communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build AI Agent systems for marketing scenarios
  • Integrate LLM capabilities into business systems for decision-making
  • Develop omni-channel personalized marketing Agents for diverse platforms
  • Enhance content creation and delivery using multimodal foundation models
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive measurable growth outcomes

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match
  • Paid parental leave
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • Life insurance and wellbeing benefits
  • 10 paid holidays and 10 paid sick days annually
  • 17 days of Paid Personal Time with increasing accruals by tenure
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

We are the TikTok Monetization - Growth team - 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. If you want to ship cutting-edge Agent technology at internet scale with real business impact, this is the place. What You'll Do - Architect & build AI Agent systems: Design and build autonomous Agent frameworks for ads growth and marketing scenarios, including but not limited to: Task Planning engines based on ReAct / Plan-and-Execute paradigms, a pluggable Tool-Use & Function Calling skill layer, a Memory management system fusing long-term and short-term memory (vector retrieval + conversation summarization), and a Multi-Agent Orchestration system supporting role-based task delegation and message routing - Deeply integrate LLM capabilities: Design Prompt Engineering & Chain-of-Thought reasoning pipelines, connect foundation models with business systems via RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and Structured Output, enabling intelligent decision-making powered by massive advertiser profiles and ad performance data - helping advertisers achieve full-lifecycle growth from Registration - Activation - Scaling - Build omni-channel personalized marketing Agents: Leveraging an Event-Driven Agent architecture, create AI-driven personalized recommendation and automation marketing solutions spanning WhatsApp, phone, email, ad placements, and more - delivering end-to-end Agentic Workflows (intent recognition - strategy generation - action execution - feedback loop) - Enhance growth content creation & delivery experience: Leverage multimodal foundation model capabilities, combined with Agent self-evaluation and iterative optimization (Self-Reflection / Critique Loop), to dramatically improve creative asset quality, automated bidding strategy tuning, and overall delivery efficiency - Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with Product, Operations, Sales, and Data Science teams to translate AI capabilities into measurable growth outcomes

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: - MS or above in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field - 1+ year of software engineering experience in the internet industry, with strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, OS, networking) - Deep understanding of AI Agent architectures; hands-on experience with one or more of the following: Agent frameworks (LangChain / LangGraph / AutoGen / CrewAI), Tool-Use & Function Calling mechanisms, RAG pipeline construction (vector databases + Embedding + retrieval strategies), Prompt Engineering (CoT / Few-shot / ReAct Prompting) - Strong system design skills with the ability to craft sound technical solutions for complex business problems - Excellent teamwork and communication skills Preferred Qualifications: - Experience building ads / recommendation / big-data platforms, having led at least one large-scale project end-to-end - Experience designing and deploying multi-agent systems (agent communication protocols, state management, fault tolerance, etc.) - Hands-on MLOps / LLMOps experience - model serving, evaluation, and monitoring pipelines - Active interest in frontier Agent research: ReAct, Reflexion, Tree-of-Thought, Plan-and-Execute, and beyond - Open-source contributions or published technical blog posts in the AI/ML space - Analytical mindset with product sense - able to drive technical decisions from a business perspective

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $156000 - $316800 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.

About TikTok

TikTok is a social media app that allows users to create and share short videos. The app was launched in 2016 by Chinese tech company ByteDance. TikTok has become one of the most popular social media apps in the world, with over 1 billion active users. The app has been downloaded over 2 billion times worldwide. TikTok has faced controversy over its data privacy practices and its potential ties to the Chinese government. In 2020, the app faced a potential ban in the United States, but a deal was reached with Oracle and Walmart to create a new company called TikTok Global.
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Size
1,750 employees
Industry
Founded
2012

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