Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation - TikTok eCommerce

TikTok
Seattle
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 3+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Problem-solving"]

Build large-scale recommendation algorithms for TikTok Shop, powering commodity, live-stream, and short-video recommendations. Develop long- and short-term user interest models from massive data, and design predictive systems for candidate generation and ranking such as CTR and conversion rate. Own the end-to-end modeling loop—real-time data pipelines, feature engineering, model optimization—and create supporting tools for debugging and iteration.

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation - TikTok eCommerce

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Job Summary

Build large-scale recommendation algorithms for TikTok Shop, powering commodity, live-stream, and short-video recommendations. Develop long- and short-term user interest models from massive data, and design predictive systems for candidate generation and ranking such as CTR and conversion rate. Own the end-to-end modeling loop—real-time data pipelines, feature engineering, model optimization—and create supporting tools for debugging and iteration.
Location: Seattle
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Participate in building large-scale e-commerce recommendation algorithms and systems for commodity, live stream, and short video recommendations.
  • •Build long- and short-term user interest models and extract relevant signals from large-scale data to explore latent interests.
  • •Design, develop, evaluate, and iterate on predictive models for candidate generation and ranking such as CTR and conversion rate prediction.
  • •Build real-time data pipelines, perform feature engineering, and optimize and innovate models.
  • •Design and build supporting/debugging tools as needed.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or a related field, with strong programming and problem-solving ability.
  • •At least 3 years of experience in recommendation algorithms, online advertising, information retrieval, NLP, computer vision, machine learning, or large-scale data mining.
  • •Familiarity with recommendation algorithms such as Collaborative Filtering, Matrix Factorization, Factorization Machines, Word2vec, Logistic Regression, Gradient Boosting Trees, Deep Neural Networks, and Wide & Deep.
  • •Experience with deep learning tools such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.
  • •Experience with at least one programming language such as C++ or Python.
Experience:3+ yearsE-commerceRecommendation algorithmsOnline advertisingInformation retrievalNatural language processingComputer visionLarge-scale data miningMachine learning
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science
Skills:Problem-solving
Tech Stack:TensorFlowPyTorchC++Python

Company Brief

TikTok
Short-form video platform that lets users create, share, and discover entertainment content through algorithmic recommendations. It also offers advertising and creator tools for brands, influencers, and businesses.
Industry: Digital Media
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Singapore, Singapore
Founded: 2016
WebsiteLinkedIn