TikTok

Machine Learning Engineer - Global E-commerce Recommendation/Search

TikTok$129K — $246K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS/MS/PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
  • Solid background in machine learning and deep learning, with a focus on NLP, personalization and recommendation algorithms.
  • Exceptional coding skills with a firm grasp of data structures and algorithms.
  • Proficient in Linux development environments.
  • Experience in search and recommendation algorithms is a plus.
  • Familiarity with e-commerce businesses is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct cutting-edge research in machine learning algorithms relevant to e-commerce.
  • Build large-scale recommendation algorithms for various platforms like TikTok, including live streams and short videos.
  • Create user interest models to analyze vast datasets and efficiently explore user preferences.
  • Apply machine learning enhancements across diverse business scenarios, including search ranking and trust safety.
  • Collaborate with the Data-E-commerce team to implement risk control and content safety algorithms.

Benefits

  • Day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match.
  • Paid parental leave and disability coverage.
  • Life insurance and wellbeing benefits.
  • 10 paid holidays and 10 paid sick days annually.
  • 17 days of Paid Personal Time with increased accrual by tenure.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

The Data-E-commerce team oversees algorithmic and corresponding engineering work in the e-commerce business. Our responsibilities encompass not only utilizing recommendation and search algorithms to help users discover appealing products but also implementing risk control and content safety algorithms to identify malicious sellers/influencers and violations in products/videos/live streams, ensuring a secure shopping experience. Furthermore, we are involved in constructing intelligent customer service technology and large-scale product knowledge graphs, aiming to enhance efficiency across various transaction processes. Through operations optimization and intelligent supply chain algorithms, we work to improve logistics efficiency. Responsibilities: - Work in a team to conduct cutting-edge research in machine learning algorithms, such as retrieval and recommendation algorithms. - 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. - Apply machine learning algorithms to improve the different business scenarios, such as search ranking, natural language and video understanding, and trust and safety.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications - BS/MS/PhD background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline. - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. - Strong foundation in machine learning and deep learning, with experience in: NLP (Natural Language Processing). Personalization. - Exceptional coding skills with solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms. - Proficiency in Linux development environments. Preferred Qualifications - Prior experience in search, recommendation, or advertisement algorithms. - Familiarity e-commerce businesses.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $129960 - $246240 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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