TikTok

Machine Learning Engineer, TikTok Content Recommendation (Ecosystem & Cold-Start)

TikTok • $162K — $316K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or related field
  • 2+ years of relevant work experience
  • Strong programming skills in C++, Python, or similar languages
  • Experience with applied machine learning and recommendation systems
  • Excellent communication and teamwork abilities
  • Passionate about technology and solving complex challenges

Responsibilities

  • Build leading-edge recommendation systems to enhance user experience
  • Deliver comprehensive machine learning solutions for critical product issues
  • Own and refine the complete machine learning stack to boost recommendation performance
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams on product strategies for market growth
  • Conduct in-depth analyses of product data to drive insights
  • Optimize algorithms and infrastructure to improve overall effectiveness in content distribution
  • Engage in innovative machine learning techniques like reinforcement learning and causal inference

Benefits

  • Access to medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match
  • Paid parental leave and family-related benefits
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • Life insurance and wellbeing programs
  • Paid time off including holidays, sick days, and personal time
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

About the Team Our team is responsible for designing and optimizing TikTok's content distribution and author growth mechanism to ensure the healthy and sustainable development of TikTok's content ecosystem. Our work involves optimizing large-scale recommendation algorithms, solving optimization problems with complex constraints, designing and implementing recommendation architectures for various scenarios, and conducting complex and in-depth analyses of product data. Here, you can drive deeper into the improvement and optimization of machine learning/deep learning algorithms, including but not limited to Mathematics, CV/NLP technology, multi-task learning, multi-modal technology, meta-learning, reinforcement learning, causal inference, metric learning, graph neural networks, active learning, life long learning, etc. Responsibilities - What You'II Do - Build industry-leading recommendation system, improving user experience, the content ecosystem and platform security; - Deliver end-to-end machine learning solution to address critical product challenges; - Own the full stack machine learning system and optimize algorithms and infrastructure to improve recommendation performance. - Work with cross functional teams to design product strategies and build solutions to grow TikTok in important markets.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor degree or above in computer science or a related major, with 2+ years of related work experience; - Strong software development experience with C++, Python or other programming language; - Experience in one or more of the following areas: applied machine learning, machine learning infrastructure, large-scale recommendation system, market-facing machine learning product; - Strong communication and teamwork skills; - Passion about techniques and solving challenging problems.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $162000 - $316800 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.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

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. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

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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Size
1,750 employees
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Founded
2012

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