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Kanchan Sarkar

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Engineering Manager - TikTok AI (Content Intelligence) at TikTok
📍 San Jose, California, United States

Kanchan Sarkar is an Engineering Manager for TikToks Content Intelligence team, leading a global group in building large-scale, multimodal AI systems. An alumnus of IIT Bombay, his work powers content safety, diversity, and the Creator Rewards Program. Colleagues describe him as an excellent team player and a strong researcher.

In 2026, Kanchan was an invited speaker at Seoul Meta Week and his team had multiple papers accepted at major AI conferences like KDD and ICML.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Engineering Manager - TikTok AI (Content Intelligence)
Job Level
Middle
Location
San Jose, California, United States
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Applied AI Research
Frequently publishes his team's work on real-world challenges at TikTok in top-tier academic conferences like KDD, ICML, and ICLR.
Large-Scale AI Systems
His role centers on building and deploying massive AI systems, including LLMs and Vision-Language Models, for TikTok's global user base.
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Career

Work history

3-2026
Engineering Manager - TikTok AI (Content Intelligence)
TikTok
1-2024 - 3-2026
Manager - TikTok AI (Content Intelligence)
TikTok
3-2022 - 1-2024
Tech Lead (AI-Lab)
TikTok
8-2020 - 3-2022
Senior Research Engineer (AI-Lab)
TikTok
3-2019 - 8-2020
Senior Data Scientist
Shopee
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Education
2014 - 2016
Master of Technology (M.Tech.)
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
2009 - 2013
Bachelor of Engineering (BE)
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur
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