Responsibilities
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
At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform.
We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes.
Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility.
Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.
Our E-commerce Recommendation Team is responsible for building up and scaling our recommendation system to provide the most stable and best shopping experience for our TikTok users.
Responsibilities
- Conduct cutting-edge research in machine learning algorithms, such as retrieval and recommendation algorithms.
- 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.
- Apply machine learning algorithms to improve the different business scenarios, such as search ranking, natural language and video understanding, and trust and safety.
Qualifications
- PhD in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent industrial research experience.
- At least 1 year of working experience in one of the following fields : recommendation systems, online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing, computer vision, machine learning, large-scale data mining, or related fields
- Familiar with at least one of the mainstream deep learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow or PyTorch
- Passionate about solving complex and challenging problems
Preferred Qualifications
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.
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.
TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws.
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