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TikTok · 16 hours ago

Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendations- USDS E-commerce Alliance

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

$178K/yr - $342K/yr

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to enhance their e-commerce platform. The role involves building and designing large-scale machine learning algorithms to improve conversion efficiency and support the rapid development of TikTok's e-commerce business.

Content CreatorsContent DiscoveryMedia and EntertainmentSocial MediaVideo

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Build and design large-scale machine learning algorithms to model the real-time interests of creators to improve conversion efficiency

Optimize TikTok's massive commodity relationship mining and ranking and recall of creators' product recommendations, and improve the overall GMV of the platform

Use the large scale of data to deeply analyze the behavior of creators and merchants and build targeted algorithm strategies to empower creators and merchants, improve merchants' monetization efficiency, and boost industrial upgrading

Support the rapid development of TikTok's e-commerce business, serve millions of merchants, explore more efficient business models, satisfy users with the best shopping experience, and promote healthy ecological development

Qualification

Machine Learning AlgorithmsDeep Learning ToolsProgramming LanguagesRecommendation SystemsData MiningProblem-SolvingCollaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related fields

Strong programming and problem-solving ability

This role is open to graduates in applied machine learning, familiar with one or more of the algorithms such as Collaborative Filtering, Matrix Factorization, Factorization Machines, Word2vec, Logistic Regression, Gradient Boosting Trees, Deep Neural Networks, Wide and Deep, GBDT, LTR, Word2vec, DIN, Deep&Wide

Experience in Deep Learning Tools such as tensorflow/pytorch

Experience with at least one programming language like C++/Python or equivalent

Preferred

Experience in recommendation system, search engine, online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, large-scale data mining, or related fields

Publications at KDD, NeurlPS, WWW, SIGIR, WSDM, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, RECSYS and related conferences/journals, or experience in data mining/machine learning competitions such as Kaggle/KDD-cup etc

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

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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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