TikTok

Applied Scientist- TikTok E-Commerce Recommendation

TikTok • $153K — $300K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • MS/PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 3+ years experience in recommendation algorithms, machine learning or related fields.
  • Familiarity with deep learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow or PyTorch).
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to extract and interpret data.
  • Passionate about solving complex problems.

Responsibilities

  • Build large-scale e-commerce recommendation algorithms and systems.
  • Develop long and short term user interest models based on extensive data analysis.
  • Design and optimize predictive models for user engagement metrics.
  • Implement real-time data pipelines and data feature engineering.
  • Create debugging tools to support system maintenance.

Benefits

  • Day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 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 per year.
  • 17 days of Paid Personal Time with increasing accruals by tenure.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

E-commerce is a new and fast growing business that aims at connecting all customers to excellent sellers and quality products on TikTok Shop, through E-commerce live-streaming, E-commerce short videos, and commodity recommendation. We are a group of applied machine learning engineers and data scientists that focus on E-commerce recommendations. We are developing innovative algorithms and techniques to improve user engagement and satisfaction, converting creative ideas into business-impacting solutions. We are interested and excited in applying large scale machine learning to solve various real-world problems in E-commerce. Responsibilities:
• Participate in building large-scale (10 million to 100 million) e-commerce recommendation algorithms and systems, including commodity recommendations, live stream recommendations, short video recommendations etc in TikTok.
• Build long and short term user interest models, analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of various data and design algorithms to explore users' latent interests efficiently.
• Design, develop, evaluate and iterate on predictive models for candidate generation and ranking(eg. Click Through Rate and Conversion Rate prediction) , including, but not limited to building real-time data pipelines, feature engineering, model optimization and innovation.
• Design and build supporting/debugging tools as needed.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
• MS/PhD in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent industrial research experience.
• 3+ years of working experience in one of the following fields: recommendation algorithm, online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, large-scale data mining, or related fields. Preferred Qualifications:
• Familiar with at least one of the mainstream deep learning frameworks, like TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Passionate about solving complex and challenging problems

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $153900 - $300960 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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1,750 employees
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Founded
2012

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