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TikTok · 1 week ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Global Payment Decision Science - USDS

San Jose, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$187K/yr - $360K/yr

5+ years exp

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.

Content CreatorsContent DiscoveryMedia and EntertainmentSocial MediaVideo

H1B Sponsor Likely

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

Machine LearningDeep LearningData ProcessingSQLPythonJavaScalaBig DataRisk ManagementComplianceE-commerce ExperienceSoft Skills

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

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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