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TikTok · 3 weeks ago

Algorithm Engineer, E-commerce Knowledge Graph - USDS

San Jose, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Entry, Mid Level

$137K/yr - $360K/yr

1+ years exp

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking an Algorithm Engineer to enhance the recognition capabilities for users and products in e-commerce. The role involves constructing user profiling systems and utilizing NLP and CV technologies to improve shopping experiences.

Content CreatorsContent DiscoveryMedia and EntertainmentSocial MediaVideo

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Construct user profiling system to accurately depict each user's shopping interests by analyzing their behavioral patterns, preferences, and consumption habits during the shopping process

Utilise NLP, CV, and multimodal technologies to enhance understanding of short video content and products, supporting search, recommendation, and end-to-end shopping experiences in the marketplace

Explore large-scale and high-quality pretraining datasets in specific verticals of e-commerce, leveraging the power of the Byte Universal Model to develop industry-specific models for e-commerce

Discover new scenarios for interactive shopping experiences in e-commerce through these innovations

Qualification

NLPComputer VisionMultimodal AnalysisPyTorchTensorFlowMachine TranslationFew-shot LearningReinforcement LearningProject ExperiencePublished PapersAwards from Competitions

Required

Deep research expertise in NLP, CV, and multimodal fields, including but not limited to machine translation, NLP, few-shot learning, reinforcement learning, image and video understanding, and multimodal analysis

Proficient in training and deploying models using PyTorch, TensorFlow, or other frameworks

Strong practical skills, with a preference for those who have project experience in video content understanding or multimodal retrieval

Priority will be given to individuals with awards from competitions such as Kaggle, COCO, ActivityNet, ICPC, NOI/IOI

Preferred

Individuals who have published papers in top-tier academic conferences/journals

Minimum 1 year relevant work experience from a large-scale internet business

Benefits

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

10 paid holidays per year

10 paid sick days per year

17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)

Company

TikTok

Glassdoor3.4

TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.

Founded in 2003

Los Angeles, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.tiktok.com

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