TikTok ยท 1 week ago
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Global Payment Decision Science - USDS
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. They are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design and build advanced data science and algorithm solutions for optimizing payment services and addressing business problems such as fraud prevention and user experience optimization.
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Responsibilities
Understand the payment business, translate business problems into data science and algorithm solutions where it fits
Apply cutting edge machine learning technologies in various payment business use cases
Own end to end model solution lifecycle and work with stakeholders to deliver business impact
Improve modeling infrastructures, labels, features, and algorithms towards robustness, automation, and generalization
Up-level risk machine learning excellence in privacy/compliance, interoperability, risk perception, and analysis
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science/Statistics/Mathematics or other related majors
Proficient in data processing and analytics in big data environment using SQL/Hive/Spark etc
Mastery of at least one prevalent programming language for data science, such as Python, Java, or Scala
Preferred
Experienced in Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms
5+ years of machine learning-related experience, preferably in trust & safety/risk management/compliance
Working experience in payment and fintech industry
E-commerce or payment compliance experience
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
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
TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.
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