Senior Data Scientist: Global E‑commerce & Logistics AI

TikTok; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 368,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is hiring a Senior Data Scientist for Global E-commerce Supply Chain & Logistics in Seattle. You will lead AI-driven analytics across procurement, warehousing, and fulfillment, building scalable models for demand, capacity, and network optimization.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Eng, and Ops to translate complex questions into actionable insights and ensure responsible AI practices. The role emphasizes experimentation, causal inference, and production deployment of ML-powered decision

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher in a quantitative field such as data science, CS, statistics, or economics.
• 5+ years in data science, ML, analytics, OR with related fields.
• Experience applying AI agents or large language models to real workflows.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python or R with large datasets.
• Strong modeling, experimentation, and causal inference foundations.
• Ability to translate business questions into data-driven actions.
• Clear written and verbal communication with cross-functional teams.
• Experience in e-commerce, supply chain, logistics, or related domains.
• Experience deploying AI/ML products in production and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead adoption of AI agent technologies across data science workflows.
• Build intelligent insights and actions to accelerate experimentation and impact.
• Develop scalable analytics and models for forecasting, optimization, and planning.
• Use experimentation and causal inference to assess strategies and changes.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations to define problems and drive solutions.
• Create reusable data products and self-service analytics for the organization.
• Raise the bar for reproducibility, model evaluation, and responsible AI.

Education

Bachelor or higher in a quantitative field

Master/PhD in a quantitative field

Tools

Spark

Hive

Flink

Cloud data platforms

Workflow orchestration tools

Job description

TikTok is hiring a Senior Data Scientist for Global E-commerce Supply Chain & Logistics in Seattle. You will lead AI-driven analytics across procurement, warehousing, and fulfillment, building scalable models for demand, capacity, and network optimization.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Eng, and Ops to translate complex questions into actionable insights and ensure responsible AI practices. The role emphasizes experimentation, causal inference, and production deployment of ML-powered decision