Research Scientist, TikTok E-Commerce Recommendation

TikTok
San Jose
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Problem-solving"]

Work on TikTok’s E-commerce Recommendation Team to research and scale machine learning systems that personalize user experiences. Conduct research on retrieval and recommendation algorithms, build large-scale recommendation models for commodities, live streams, and short video, and develop user interest representations. Apply ML to key business scenarios like search ranking, natural language and video understanding, and trust & safety.

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Research Scientist, TikTok E-Commerce Recommendation

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Job Summary

Work on TikTok’s E-commerce Recommendation Team to research and scale machine learning systems that personalize user experiences. Conduct research on retrieval and recommendation algorithms, build large-scale recommendation models for commodities, live streams, and short video, and develop user interest representations. Apply ML to key business scenarios like search ranking, natural language and video understanding, and trust & safety.
Location: San Jose
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Conduct cutting-edge research in machine learning algorithms, including retrieval and recommendation algorithms.
  • •Help build and scale large-scale e-commerce recommendation algorithms and systems for commodities, live streams, and short videos.
  • •Develop long- and short-term user interest models and analyze large volumes of data to explore users’ latent interests.
  • •Design algorithms that efficiently extract and use relevant information for personalization.
  • •Apply machine learning to improve business scenarios including search ranking, natural language and video understanding, and trust and safety.

Key Requirements

  • •MS/PhD in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent industrial research experience.
  • •3+ years of experience in recommendation algorithms, online advertising, information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, large-scale data mining, or related fields.
  • •Familiarity with at least one mainstream deep learning framework such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.
  • •Experience applying machine learning algorithms in large-scale recommendation systems.
  • •Ability to solve complex, challenging problems in ML research and development.
Experience:3+ yearsRecommendation algorithmsOnline advertisingInformation retrievalNatural language processingMachine learningLarge-scale data miningE-commerce
Education:
Skills:Problem-solving
Tech Stack:TensorFlowPyTorch

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