Machine Learning Engineer, E-commerce Governance Algorithms

Seattle, Washington, US Until 8/21/2026 3+ years exp H-1B sponsor history First posted March 29, 2026 Last posted March 29, 2026
Job description

Description

The e-commerce industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years and has become a hotly contested space amongst leading Internet companies, and its future growth cannot be underestimated. With millions of loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-commerce experience to our users. We aim to bring discovery, inspiration, and joy back to shopping by making TikTok the commerce channel of choice for merchants, creators, and affiliates.With millions of loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-commerce experience to our users. We are looking for passionate and talented people to join our product and operations team, to build an e-commerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure and intuitive for our users and brands.

About the Team
The Governance and Experience Algorithm team was established in September 2020 and its main job is to support the following businesses with the most advanced AI technology:
- Combat any kinds of risks/violations issues in E-commerce scenarios.
- Build a safe E-commerce ecosystem and improve platform service capabilities.

Responsibilities:
• Work with a team to design and implement algorithms to detect and control risks/frauds in contents/products/sellers/creators
• Collaborate with strategy team, product managers, policy team and ops team to help define products and drive initiatives from engineering viewpoints

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• 3+ working experience in one of the following fields: machine learning , NLP and computer vision
• Experience with software development in at least one of the following programming languages: C++, Python, Go, Java
• Experience in anti-fraud/anti-spam/platform-integrity or related fields is a plus
• Strong sense of responsibility and good at communication and teamwork

About this role

Summary

Design and implement algorithms to detect risks and fraud in e-commerce content and activities.

Job title

Machine Learning Engineer, E-commerce Governance Algorithms

Experience level

3+ years

Minimum experience

3+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Seattle, remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

machine learningNLPcomputer visionPythonC++

Preferred skills

anti-fraudplatform integrity

Specializations

machine learningNLPcomputer vision
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Seattle, WA, USA

On-site City