Machine Learning Engineer, Pricing - TikTok E-commerce Global Supply Chain and Logistics

Responsibilities

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TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.

Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.

To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.

At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.

Join us.

About the team!

The E-commerce Global Supply Chain and Logistics team is dedicated to enhancing clients' shopping experience and reducing logistics operational cost in TikTok E-commerce.

We are currently looking for talented software engineers that have a deep understanding of machine learning (ML), operations research (OR), data mining and statistical inference.

This position can be fulfilled in our San Jose and Seattle offices.

You'll work on :

• Build global logistic and warehousing network, improve operations efficiency and reduce operational cost with data analysis, machine learning and operation research methods.
• Create supply chain's data portrait and knowledge graph in various dimensions such as vendors, commodity, place of origin, inventory, production capacity and quality of fulfillment, etc.

Establish data-driven control-adjustment methods that enhance operational outcomes and user experience.

Highlight global e-commerce trends to optimize e-commerce commodity supplies, forecast commodity demand, recommend vendor stocking and enhance production capacity.

Role and Responsibilities :

• Responsible for the design of optimization algorithm strategies for commodity / freight pricing in multiple modes for domestic / cross-border scenarios, collaborating with upstream and downstream partners to optimize subsidy pricing and achieve the best price.
• Responsible for modeling the probability estimation problems of logistics costs / benefits, price elasticity, etc., and continuously improving accuracy through machine learning and causal inference methods.
• Deeply understand the e-commerce business scenario, and refine the direction of logistics operation mode optimization, logistics cost reduction, and service quality improvement through data mining.
• Participate in product design, work closely with product, operations, and management teams to promote the productization and implementation of algorithm models to continuously empower business.

Qualifications

• Have a solid foundation in data structure and algorithm design, and be proficient in using one of the programming languages such as Python, Java, C++, R, etc.
• Familiar with common machine / deep learning, causal inference, and operational optimization algorithms, including classification, regression, clustering methods, as well as mathematical programming and heuristic algorithms.
• Familiar with at least one framework of TensorFlow / PyTorch / MXNet and its training and deployment details, as well as the training acceleration methods such as mixed precision training and distributed training.
• Have strong practical ability, winners in Kaggle, COCO, ImageNet, NOI / IOI and other competitions are preferred, and those who have papers published in relevant competitions and top academic conferences (such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, etc.

are preferred as well.

Familiar with big data related frameworks and application, those who are familiar with MR or Spark are preferred.

Job Information :

For Pay Transparency Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $205000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location.

Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses / incentives, and restricted stock units.

Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life.

We offer the following benefits to eligible employees :

We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match.

As well as Dental, Vision, Short / Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.

Our time off and leave plans are : 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.

We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

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