Senior ML Engineer - E-commerce Recommendations

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 388,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Short-term and long-term disability

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays and personal time

Job summary

TikTok Inc. in San Jose is seeking a senior ML/RS engineer to help design and optimize large-scale e-commerce recommendation systems.

You will work on commodity, live stream, and short video recommendations, building models and data pipelines to extract user interests and drive engagement. The role requires strong programming skills, 3+ years in relevant ML fields, and familiarity with algorithms and DL frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or above degree in Computer Science or related fields with strong programming and problem-solving ability.
• At least 3 years working experience in one of the following fields: recommendation algorithm, online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing, computer vision, machine learning, large-scale data mining, or related fields.

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

Skills

CS degree

3+ years ML/RS

C++/Python

TensorFlow/PyTorch

Algorithm familiarity

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

TikTok Inc. in San Jose is seeking a senior ML/RS engineer to help design and optimize large-scale e-commerce recommendation systems.

You will work on commodity, live stream, and short video recommendations, building models and data pipelines to extract user interests and drive engagement. The role requires strong programming skills, 3+ years in relevant ML fields, and familiarity with algorithms and DL frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.