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Tech Lead, Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Search Recommendation, E-commerce

TikTok
San Jose, CA
Full-time

Responsibilities

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.

TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

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 Search Growth E-commerce team is at the forefront of developing the search recommendation algorithm for TikTok's rapidly expanding global e-commerce enterprise.

Utilizing cutting-edge machine learning technology, advanced NLP, CV, recommendation, and multi-modal technology, we're shaping a pioneering engine within the industry.

Our objective is to deliver the ultimate e-commerce search experience to over 1 billion active TikTok users worldwide. Our mission : to create a world where ""there are no hard-to-sell, overpriced products.""

Responsibilities

  • Elevate search recommendation services and models for TikTok E-commerce, driving heightened e-commerce search traffic on both TikTok and TikTok Mall, while enhancing user search and purchasing cognition.
  • Optimize the recommender system, focusing on hyperscale machine learning models. This involves diverse tasks spanning recall / first-stage ranking to final-stage ranking within the end-to-end workflow.
  • Push the boundaries of short text and general recommendation technology, with a specific emphasis on the interaction between recommendation and NLP technology.
  • Provide guidance and mentorship to fellow teammates.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor or advanced degree in computer science or a related technical discipline.
  • Excellent coding skills. Solid knowledge of data structure and algorithms.
  • Excellent in analysis, modeling and problem-solving, and can see the essence of problems from complex data.
  • Publication records in top journals or conferences will be a plus. Experience winning ACM-ICPC medals will be a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 5+ years of work experience in machine learning. Good product sense with a focus on user experience.
  • Domain knowledge or working experience in any of these areas : modern Recommendation, Search, Advertisement, E-commerce.

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.

If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https : / / shorturl.at / cdpT2

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