ML Engineer - Real-Time Commerce & Recommendations

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 388,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental and vision insurance

401(k) match

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a PhD-level candidate to design and deploy cutting-edge AI and ML systems for its e-commerce ecosystem. You will work on recommendation, ranking, and merchant-operations tools to boost ROI and automate processes, collaborating with cross-functional teams to move ideas from research to production.

The role emphasizes exploring state-of-the-art AI, building scalable solutions, and driving growth for merchants and creators within TikTok Shop.

Qualifications

• PhD completed or near completion in CS, Engineering or OR.
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Deep understanding of ML, statistics, distributed computing and big data.

Responsibilities

• Design and build ML, recommendation and ranking algorithms for large-scale e-commerce.
• Develop AI-powered merchant operation systems and AI agents to optimize affiliate strategies.
• Apply LLMs, NLP, and multimodal ML to discover new business opportunities.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to deploy research to production.
• Stay at the forefront of AI advances and rapidly prototype new technologies.
• Build ML-agents to automate algorithm development workflows.

Skills

Data structures & algorithms

Education

PhD in CS/Engineering/OR

Job description

TikTok is seeking a PhD-level candidate to design and deploy cutting-edge AI and ML systems for its e-commerce ecosystem. You will work on recommendation, ranking, and merchant-operations tools to boost ROI and automate processes, collaborating with cross-functional teams to move ideas from research to production.

The role emphasizes exploring state-of-the-art AI, building scalable solutions, and driving growth for merchants and creators within TikTok Shop.