Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Recommendation/Search Alliance) - 2027 Start (PhD)

TikTok
Seattle
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningEducation: phdSkills: ["Problem-solving","Creativity","Quick problem-solving","Curiosity","Rapid prototyping"]

Build large-scale e-commerce recommendation, search, and ranking systems for millions of TikTok Shop users. Develop AI-powered merchant affiliate operation tools and agents to improve ROI and automation-driven growth. Apply state-of-the-art LLMs, NLP, and multimodal machine learning for discovery and ranking, collaborating with product and engineering to move research into production. Prototype and productionize new technologies and accelerate experimentation with ML-agents and evaluation pipelines.

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Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Recommendation/Search Alliance) - 2027 Start (PhD)

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Job Summary

Build large-scale e-commerce recommendation, search, and ranking systems for millions of TikTok Shop users. Develop AI-powered merchant affiliate operation tools and agents to improve ROI and automation-driven growth. Apply state-of-the-art LLMs, NLP, and multimodal machine learning for discovery and ranking, collaborating with product and engineering to move research into production. Prototype and productionize new technologies and accelerate experimentation with ML-agents and evaluation pipelines.
Location: Seattle
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Graduate level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build machine learning, recommendation, and ranking algorithms for real-time e-commerce recommendations at scale.
  • •Develop AI-powered merchant operation systems and agents to optimize affiliate strategies, improve ROI, and automate growth.
  • •Apply state-of-the-art LLMs, NLP, and multimodal machine learning to discover new business opportunities and drive sustainable growth.
  • •Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional teams to take AI solutions from research to production.
  • •Build ML-agents to automate algorithm development workflows, accelerating experimentation, iteration, evaluation, and deployment.

Key Requirements

  • •Completing or recently completed a PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, or a related discipline.
  • •Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms with excellent problem-solving skills.
  • •Deep understanding of machine learning, statistics, scaling distributed computing, and big data engineering.
  • •Experience developing software via internships, work, coding competitions, or publications.
  • •Internship and/or research experience in e-commerce, recommendation, or search engine, with a record of relevant publications (e.g., KDD, NeurIPS, WWW, SIGIR).
Experience:E-commerceRecommendationSearchDistributed computingBig dataLLMsNLP
Education:PhD / Doctorate in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, or a related discipline
Skills:Problem-solvingCreativityQuick problem-solvingCuriosityRapid prototyping
Tech Stack:LLMsNLPMultimodal machine learningRecommendation systemsRanking algorithmsDistributed computingBig data engineeringAI agents

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
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