Software Engineer - Creative AI, Ads Creative & Ecosystem

Software Engineer - Creative AI, Ads Creative & Ecosystem Location: San Jose Employment Type: Regular Job Code: A199604 About the Team TikTok Ads Creative team is dedicated to revolutionizing brand marketing by merging creative content with cutting‑edge AI. We provide full‑funnel marketing solutions—from brand awareness to GMV growth—maximizing ROI for global advertisers. Responsibilities Architect Intelligent Content Understanding Systems: Design and implement multi‑layered AI ranking models (recall, rough/fine ranking) based on multi‑modal content. Your systems will help global brands discover highly engaging and commercially viable ad creatives from our vast content platform. Pioneer AI Paradigms for Content Production: Explore new opportunities at the intersection of creators and AI. Apply AIGC technologies across content briefing, intelligent production, and quality assurance. You will build a Multi‑Agent content production system leveraging LLMs to improve the efficiency and quality of global creator supply. Build an Efficient Authorization & Retrieval Platform: Streamline creator outreach and build LLM‑based video search and recommendation systems to help clients find the perfect videos effortlessly. You will construct a unified "Agent for Creator Material Supply," equipped with advanced skills for material production, management, and data analytics to intelligently meet client needs. Develop Automated Creative Delivery Engines: Engineer automated creative selection and delivery systems. Integrate creator materials, client‑owned assets, and AIGC content. Utilize advanced recognition and matching capabilities to precisely link high‑quality creatives with landing pages and product IDs, maximizing ad performance. Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Demonstrated experience building, maintaining, and optimizing high‑scale, distributed backend systems in fast‑paced environments. Exceptional coding skills with a rock‑solid foundation in data structures and algorithms. Strong engineering execution capabilities. Familiarity with AI‑assisted engineering workflows to accelerate development cycles. Hands‑on experience or deep personal knowledge in one or more of the following areas: AIGC, Large Language Models (LLMs), or AI Agents. Genuine passion for AI applications, with a deep understanding of the product and technical logic behind at least one major AI application. Strong problem‑abstraction skills, with the ability to analyze, debug, and tune complex production systems efficiently. Domain expertise or background in Influencer Marketing, Ad Creative Supply, or Affiliate Networks (preferred). A strong track record of independently leading the architecture, development, and delivery of complex engineering systems (preferred). Job Information The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $156,000 - $316,800 annually. Benefits 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. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr