Machine Learning Engineer, Core Feed Recommendation - Dedup

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, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

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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 TikTok RecCore Dedup team conducts research and introduces cutting-edge AI technologies to our products. To provide the best user experience, we build large-scale systems and support various production strategies including video deduplication, originality recognition, copyright detection, content safety, and content moderation.

Responsibilities

• Build the Dedup and Copyright system, supporting billions of users all over the world.
• Based on product requirements, develop models and systems to detect duplicated and similar materials among billions of videos.
• Introduce new AI technologies to our online system and improve performance.
• Improve the reliability of the system, managing the challenges of scale and complexity.
• Support the production of scalable and optimized AI / machine learning (ML) models.
• Focus on building algorithms for the extraction, transformation, and loading of large volumes of real-time, unstructured data to deploy AI / ML solutions from theoretical data science models.
• Run experiments to test the performance of deployed models, identifying and resolving bugs that arise in the process.
• Work in a team setting and apply knowledge in statistics, scripting, and programming languages required by the firm.
• Work with the relevant software platforms in which the models are deployed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or higher degree in computer science or related discipline.
• Minimum 1 year of experience in Machine Learning, familiar with at least one Deep Learning framework, e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow.
• Experience in Multimedia or Computer Vision, e.g., Image / Video / Audio retrieval, Representation Learning, Re-Identification, Unsupervised / Self-supervised learning.
• Experience or knowledge of recent advances in LLMs, VLMs, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Authors of published papers in top academic conferences.
• Winners of algorithm and machine learning competitions such as ACM and Kaggle.

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 [email protected].

Job Information :

For Pay Transparency Compensation Description (annually) : The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $126,000 - $221,760 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, 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, create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and support our employees to give their best in both work and life.

We offer the following benefits to eligible employees :

• 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents, and a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company match.
• Dental, Vision, Short / Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans.
• 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.
• 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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