Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (TikTok Shop Global E-Commerce, Recommendation) - 2026 Start[...]

TIKTOK PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social media platform in Singapore seeks talented individuals for e-commerce recommendation engineering roles. Candidates will participate in developing innovative algorithms to enhance user engagement. The ideal applicants are final year or recent PhD graduates with strong programming skills and a background in applied machine learning. Opportunities for career growth and a dynamic workspace await.

Benefits

Yoga and fitness

Stock options

Career growth opportunity

Paid leave

Flexible hours

Qualifications

• Final year or recent PhD graduate with a relevant background.
• Experience with algorithms like Collaborative Filtering and Logistic Regression.
• Publications in machine learning conferences preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build large-scale e-commerce recommendation algorithms.
• Design and iterate on predictive models for candidate generation.
• Run experiments to test performance of deployed models.

Skills

Strong programming and problem-solving ability

Experience in applied machine learning

Familiarity with deep learning tools

Education

PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline

Tools

C++

Python

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

Job highlights

Yoga and fitness, Stock options, Positive team atmosphere, Career growth opportunity, Paid leave, Flat organization, 100+ mil users, Industry experts, Competitive compensation, Flexible hours

Responsibilities

Team Introduction

E-commerce is a new and fast growing business that aims at connecting all customers to excellent sellers and quality products on TikTok Shop, through E-commerce live-streaming, E-commerce short videos, and commodity recommendation. We are a group of applied machine learning engineers and data scientists that focus on E-commerce recommendations. We are developing innovative algorithms and techniques to improve user engagement and satisfaction, converting creative ideas into business-impacting solutions. We are interested and excited in applying large scale machine learning to solve various real-world problems in E-commerce.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at TikTok.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Responsibilities

- Participate in building large-scale (10 million to 100 million) e-commerce recommendation algorithms and systems, including commodity recommendations, live stream recommendations, short video recommendations etc in TikTok.

- Build long and short term user interest models, analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of various data and design algorithms to explore users' latent interests efficiently.

- Design, develop, evaluate and iterate on predictive models for candidate generation and ranking(eg. Click Through Rate and Conversion Rate prediction) , including, but not limited to building real-time data pipelines, feature engineering, model optimization and innovation.

- Design and build supporting/debugging tools as needed.

- Support the production of scalable and optimised AI/machine learning (ML) models.

- Focus on building algorithms for the extraction, transformation and loading of large volumes of realtime, unstructured data to deploy AI/ML solutions from theoretical data science models.

- Run experiments to test the performance of deployed models, and identifies and resolves bugs that arise in the process.

- Work in a team setting and apply knowledge in statistics, scripting and programming languages required by the firm.

- Work with the relevant software platforms in which the models are deployed.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

- Final year or recent PhD graduate with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

- Strong programming and problem-solving ability.

- Experience 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 etc.

- Experience in Deep Learning Tools such as tensorflow/pytorch.

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

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in recommendation system, 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.

By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://careers.tiktok.com/legal/privacy

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